An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

You’re a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren’t human, but that doesn’t make us monsters.

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

Touring with the record out - shows are so much more fun now that n - - s know what I'm talking about.

You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.