You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.

The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

Invention requires an excited mind; execution, a calm one.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.

Money isnt everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.