I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.
I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.
An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea
Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
When you call someone and ask them to do something they've never done before, in different mediums I think they would be inclined to pass because they're afraid of the risk. But the creative people who populate the theater world love the challenge of new things.
I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail. " Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!
Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.