Art should not have to be a certain way.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

WE IGNORED TRUTHS FOR TEMPORARY HAPPINESS.

When you fail, embrace it. Bleed. Get hurt. Lose your religion. That's the only way you will do amazing things.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.

I'm an American, I don't have to see something to know it's stupid!

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.