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

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.

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.

Close your EYES, hear the RAIN, and listen to my WORDS.

The best Products are customized not standardized.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

by and large, nothing is as bad as you fear, or as good as you hope.

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.