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.

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

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.

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.

Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.

Every triumph has to overcome the fear of tragedy.

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.