If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

Home is where the love is and where the heart wants to dwell with ease.

At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?

Anytime you have a thought, for example, that excludes someone, if you have a religion that excludes someone, then you've really left God behind, and you've really left your source energy behind.