Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

May the Lord fight your battles for you.

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.