I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

You are responsible for your choices, and your choices define who you are.

As beliefs, energies, and acceptance can change, so can choices. Don’t feel that because you have made a choice, it has to last forever. If it is time to change a choice, change it!

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.

I think a goal is a goal and not all my goals are pretty.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.