I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind

I like it subdued and tepid, with far to much milk

I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.

A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE

Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest

I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.

I help design my own tennis clothes.

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.