I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

Kishan shook his head. 'I'm not going to let you hurt

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you'll go after you're dead.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.

Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

There has been one defining production for me in each decade.