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

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.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

How important has Phil Jackson been to the success of the Lakers? He's very important.

I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.

To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.

I don't believe in hero worship.

I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

Nobody wants to hear an actor complain about too much work - especially other actors.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life not something separated from it.

I take classes to be a mortician.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.