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

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.

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.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Faith has size.

Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, being photographer

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.

Life is a second-by-second miracle.

I love being able to make people laugh.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Everything has a trend to it; I don't care if it's appliances or engines. I always ask: What has a company done in the past five years that somebody's noticed?