To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.

A time will come when the eye of man will perceive colors as feelings within itself.

These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.

The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo upon our canvasses in deafening and triumphant flourishes.

All art critics are useless or harmful.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose!

I didn’t spend my whole summer training with Anwar and him on a deserted island in the Baltic sea to stand here and do nothing.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.