Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

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.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

The failure to work out sensible budgets makes it impossible for government agencies to make long-term plans, and instead leaves them scrambling to spend money in the short term.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.