If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

I breathe you. I live you. I love you

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

We also had an "in" with MTV those days. Tara Reid was engaged to Carson Daly. She just called him and was like, "Do you want to be in the movie?" So they kind of had to make it work.

Recognize that you are a spiritual being who is part of a large cosmic family of spiritual beings. You have the power, strength, and talent to fulfill your own individual earthly destiny.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.

All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.

We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.