Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Running a business is a serious thing.

It is enough to know, too much to see

...khalepa ta kala...It means that that which is worth having--the good, fine, honorable, and noble things--are difficult to attain...It means something else as well...It means 'beauty is harsh'.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

If your church isn't winning souls, I hope you go out of business

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.