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

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.

Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

I like how I feel when I am in shape. I don't go to a gym; I run.

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

I'm a big yachting fan.

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City.

I am a peace supporting Jew.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.

There are incredible musicians around the world.

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.