Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul.
Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you do that through your own thinking.
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share. . . . It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.
Only do what you love, only pursue what feels like you.