I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

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.

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.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

We must forget our past because our past was a life according to the thoughts of people and not God

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

I can't believe there's a website which counts down until I'm legal. It is quite sick and perverted when you think about it. These people must have a lot of time on their hands.

I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning.

You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

I think, that after the arrival of the mechanical clock we see an explosion in scientific thinking and scientific discovery.

In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.