A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

People become artists out of despair.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.

The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

'Social engineering, ' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology.

...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

... As to sleep, you know, I never sleep now. I might be a Watchman, except that I don't get any pay, and he's got nothing on his mind.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant.

Creation myths are not about the origins of the world at all, but about the origins of patriarchy which has claimed itself as the world

To be able to see the flaws in your own work is a gift.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.