It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

It is impossible to do a thing the way I see it because the closer I get the more differently I see.

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

Love, at most know, follows its own timeline. Disregarding our intentions or well rehearsed plans.

Managers will tell people what to do, whereas leaders will inspire them to do it, and there are a few things that go into the ability to inspire.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

You know who I think is very sexy? Nora Jones.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Any small business that's predicated on technological innovation and is differentiated and superior can expand globally very effectively using the Internet as a vehicle for promotion.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

My practice schedule is not constant and changes a lot and depends on my moods also.

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins.

I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.

If you want to cure the world, don’t emanate fear, emanate love.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Men are every bit as gendered as women.

I try to stay away from the craft services table on set! That's probably why I am able to still get work in this business: I stay away from junk food.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

With family dramas its hard to keep those stories alive.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion.