I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

I move in the university of the waves.

Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well.

Sometimes it’s nice to remember the little things.

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

I think that the art of marketing, the art of promotion and the art of storytelling is definitely elevated and we have to get better every year.

The only way I knew I was ready to come out was I was being driven crazy by the fact that I was not out.