All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

You can change your perspective on any experience by given it a positive and empowering meaning.

I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.

Being in one's 50s is a powerful time.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.