Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

There is no self-portrait of me.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

There are no good men, only good monsters.

Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

Cooperstown is the greatest place on Earth.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.