What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

So let me get this straight. You were living in a tent in the woods, but now you're living with Prince Charming and anger management boy? SERIOUSLY?!

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

The minute they become a partner in the Palestinian government, reality will become a lot more complicated for them than when they were a terror organization alone.

Joy is more infectious than leprosy.

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.