Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.