There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

Home is within me, no matter where I go, no matter what happens to our planet or our people.

Marquez was not born in Colombia.He was born in Macondo, And his Macondo is his La Mancha.

I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

The universe without music would be madness.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.