Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

People make you retract spoken words but they do not understand [know] that speech is a record, so how can anyone retract it?

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

The main efforts of investigators have been in papering over contradictions in the big bang theory, to build up an idea which has become ever more complex and cumbersome.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

The days are long enough for those who use them.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are.