The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.
I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.
As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.