I like the rule that corrects emotion.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.

There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Art is a wound turned into light.

The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

Art is polymorphic. A picture appears to each onlooker under a different guise.

If we had never met Picasso, would Cubism have been what it is? I think not. The meeting with Picasso was a circumstance in our lives.

Your wife is your life. Don't let strife thrive in your union.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

The way I think of my work is that I have to think up the way to tell a story, starting from scratch. The changes in the industry concern me in a general way because I think civilization is doomed.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

No doubt, love comes in many colors of the rainbow.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

There are two schools of fried chicken. One is brining in salted water and the other is soaking in either buttermilk or milk. I just combine the two.

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.