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

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.

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.

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

All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt.

Jesus Christ is the Master of the business we are doing. We are not the master

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock.

If you care too much about a person you will loose your importance in his life

Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve . Comfort yourself.You would not seek me if you had not found me.

Society becomes how you behave.

Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.