When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

Western artists stand as humans looking at nature; Asian artists try to be in nature. You become one with nature rather than painting a portrait of it. That's a big shift.

When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.

A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

A work of art is a renewable source of energy.

I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

I don't remember any dream. All I remember is waking up and feeling that there had been a change while I was sleeping.

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

Budgeting has only one rule: Do not go over budget.

Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?

Kelsey laughed and the sound moved through him, made the hairs on his arms stand up, made hisheart beat faster

This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised.

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

Evil man make me kill you.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

If people confront me with certain questions, if they are not right, I will not answer them.