Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

If there is wrong [ill] on the inside, the outside will appear wrong. Therefore, you should inquire within ‘why am I bothered, when others are not? So there must be wrong within me only.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.

It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

God first, family second, career third.

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.