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Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

I am a simple Czech musician, and I have no pretensions to be anything else.

Though I am a great lover of music, I am not a great lover of musicians.

My lord, I write better when I have money.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

There's no such thing as a wrong note; some are just more right than others.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Art is the concrete representation of the abstract idea.

I am not interested in the 'idea' of colour, but in the experience of it.

I never had a problem with the canvas. The canvas was always a friend.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

What you see is what you see.

My work is not really abstract, it's more like a diary. It's about my experiences, my feelings, my thoughts.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two.)

Art is a machine, and a machine is art.

Our work is about joy and beauty. We are not interested in political messages.

I've always been an outsider, and I've always been an artist. That's my identity.

ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE.

Video is a way of seeing, a way of feeling, a way of being. It's a way of being in the world.