Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft.

I do not follow any tradition. I may stand at the beginning of one.

To change your life just accept and adjust. What else can you do?

Businesses need the well-defined set of guidelines and rules for managing innovation risks in a structural way.

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

My father always said, 'Bet on yourself.'

Having a manicure pulls a look together. Hands are the first thing people see after your face.

I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.