If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

Don't tell your friend you are fighting with your wife, it gives him pleasure

That is when you know you have reached the point of no return, when you began to stalk a ghost.

We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

The dream is short, repentance long.

For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just going out there and having fun with the character.

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.