A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?

The images are compositions of photos superimposed over painted backgrounds, then finished off with digital alterations.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.