It takes a long time for the gleam in the eye to turn into something solid.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

They're book addicts.

The spirit knows the soul.

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

She wanted to be remembered for doing something great. And her greatest fear was of being completely forgotten.

This much I know already: When Tommy and the Big Brains, in whispered, wry asides, talk about Project 88715, they call it something else. They call it the "Adam Project.

In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

You have a feeling of achievement when you discover a new plant, even a plant that has no use.