I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

How is San Francisco, Alex? Lovely city. Will you leave your heart there? Do you think it's a good place to die?

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

Im as conservative as they come.