I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

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

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass.

After all, the world is still great.

Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.

I get bored very easily. I do like excitement.

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.