It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Life is loves shrine.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.

Values are shaped and refined by rubbing against real problems, and people interpret their problems according to the values they hold.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.