Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

Cynicism's always a pose - always.

Sweet songs of youth, the wise, the meeting of all wisdom To believe in the good in man.

If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

I really like just super dry comedy.