I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

I'd love to teach a self-defense class for ladies, specifically about running away from psychos in masks chasing them with chainsaws.

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.

You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Once you close down your laboratory, you can't just rev it up again if you're able to finally get a grant.

We cannot disrespect the wishes of states.

Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.