Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.