Most art is just surface noise.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

God is my everlasting Father.

Knowledge and wisdom are both the signs of hunger and thirst of creativity.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.

One of the most valuable things you can do to create higher levels of trust is to trust others more. Don't wait for them to prove themselves to you. Trust them.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.