To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall when you feel the bone structure of the landscape the loneliness of it the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it the whole story doesnt show.

My pencil is like a fencer's foil.

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.

Appreciation can make a day-even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

What I don't like is talking points.

But my family's really close and I was interested in what Mommy and Daddy did for a living. So when Mommy and Daddy had a script that wasn't totally age inappropriate, they would let me read it. And we would talk about it.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Fire thats closest kept burns most of all.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The resources of nature like those of spirit are running out and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.

Filming typically takes a bit away from the climbing experience, since you have to stop all the time and shoot.