With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

It is no use dying, before one does.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

Without a doubt, there's huge satisfaction when a relatively smaller nation can take on a bigger nation and defeat them. There's a lot of pride in that.

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

Let passion drive your profession.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.