I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

It's the moment you think you can't that you realize you can.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

My wife, Edith, and I both have good health - and she's been very tolerant.

I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them.