Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.

How superfluous other people can seem when you are convinced you already have the only ones you need.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

We don't know something called elections in Libya. We are a muslim country. We don't know something called colonialism and political parties.

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

Love has been stronger than the air you breathe.

The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them.