I want to assassinate painting.

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

What I am seeking... is a motionless movement, something equivalent to what is called the eloquence of silence.

I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

Harshness is the enemy of gratitude.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

There's something to said about smaller bed - you're forced to stay close to me. Where you belong.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I'm a humble student of acting myself and part of that studentship is teaching.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.