To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

But maybe you see beauty in me because you are beautiful, not because I am.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Buddha was not a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldnt say that we have more challenges than other people, theyre just different.