There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Darkness is a kind of visual silence, and monks love it.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

When I was growing up in Wakefield in the 90s I would get in fights for carrying a guitar around.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

You become a film critic because you're interested in film. I don't know whether knowing so much about cinema leads you to make better films, but it certainly can't hurt.

New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary.

If he's at this party, I want you to stay far away from him." "Shouldn't that rule apply to you, and Jules, too? Unless your penises make you magically bulletproof.