I have to change to stay the same.

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

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.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Some Fairy tales are meant to teach us lessons, some may come true, sometimes Magic is real....

No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

If there were no God, he would have to be invented.

You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.