By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

If the journey to success and happiness was hundred miles, some people would calculate it by meters and get discouraged by the numbers they come up with.

Do we use thoughts as a medium to convey our emotions, or use our emotions to convey thoughts!

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

The revenge of a guilty woman is implacable.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.