Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the end, let it win, because there was a lot more taste to defeat than to victory.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!

Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.