You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

I don't paint, I hit.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Life is one big gym where we need to constantly workout to stay fit for this world. And indeed love here is the treadmill.

Be my God, so I can just be me.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

My mother [was in advertising and] worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent.

When in doubt, do the obvious.

As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.