I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being into the worst version of himself.

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

The decision to overlook the seeming inequities of life instead of reacting to them is a choice.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy.

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.