If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.

Divorce is a game played by lawyers.

There is nothing funny about aging: It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.