The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.

Life doesn't get much better than this.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

When we finally decide that drug prohibition has been no more successful than alcohol prohibition, the drug dealers will disappear.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.