I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

Once a human being has arrived on this earth communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.

Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.

Right now I'm just trying to be baseball-oriented.

False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

When you're associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn't get any better than that.