When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

Turn your fear around. The other side of it is strength.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies.

The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting you, Mr. Haines. You're not living up to your part of the bargain.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

With success comes unhelpful criticism - ignore it.