I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Visionaries are hyper-focused to make sure there dreams come through. Be a visionary!

By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

No action is without its side effects.

Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land.

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.