The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

The fact that you are attending church does not mean you are already serving the Lord

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.

Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other.

Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

What a comfort is friendship in this world.