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.

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

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

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

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.