It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

Like bees creating a beehive or ants creating an anthill we're all moving along creating something and we're not sure what it is.

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

He doesn't need advice on how to play his position, but he needs advice on how to play team ball... If it's going to be my team, I'll voice my opinion. If he don't like it, he can opt out.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

It wouldn't be bad to look like a cross between Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor.