A good artist should laugh often!

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

I guess I'm afraid to retire because I don't know what I would do. I don't know what my talent is. So I don't know. So maybe I'm afraid to stop, but I've got to stop.

A mouse has the precision that your finger can't approach.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.