We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam in the history we make today.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.