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.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

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

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.

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

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.

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

I left United, but my Heart didn't

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

The only way to see the value of a play is to see it acted.