Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

Pure logic is the impossibility by means of which science is maintained.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.

There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.