You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

It's interesting how pain can change a person, eh? How it makes a man abandon his pride and forsake himself.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

When you are in harmonywith yourself, you'll be in harmony with everyone else.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it.