Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

The best way to begin is to say: 'Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at the paintings'.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

I'm in relationship right now and one thing that I've loved about it is sharing the memories.

The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day.

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

You know, there are some areas of the state that are providing enormous help to their students; there are others where they're not doing what they can.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

I like actual songs and bands, but it's usually parts, like the production, the bassline, the drums, that I'm really attracted to.