Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

With love I draw what I hate.

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Strength isn't about what you can and cannot achieve. It’s about what you will and will not do in order to achieve.

If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you

In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.