“[These are] not paintings in the usual sense, they are life and death merging in fearful union.”

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

“My idea of painting was that those yellow squares, being put on the wall as delineating a virtual square or rectangle, were involving the wall itself within the piece and, in this sense, compared to what is usually a work of art, a painting, this piece was somehow reversing the usual terms of the esthetic proposition. Usually, you see the painting and you ignore the wall. Here you had the wall coming through the painting — and the painting itself, the painted pieces, become a standpoint to make the wall appear.”

“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”

“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ”

“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.”

“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”