I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

Everything put together is made to fall apart.

I don't think about what other people expect or anything. I mean, I sit and worrying so much about what I'M thinking, I'd go NUTS if I sat around worrying about other people.

Do you recall Fred Merriville?” She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?” “The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!

One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

It makes me happy when my sons come home and tell me, 'We bumped into Donatella and she says hi.'

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

If you concern yourself with remaining relevant, you'll probably disappear into oblivion.