I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

God grant be the strength to endure all things.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed.

Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.