I never think that anything I do is courageous.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

I think if you steal well, you're a genius. If you copy badly, you're a hack.

I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

Then I fell in love and everything went to hell.

Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out.