Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

My next baby will be my new record.

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.

Olympics is everyone's dream.

I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.

I'm not a person who comes with bodyguards. I'm a simple jhola-kurta kind of girl. So people treat me as a buddy.

The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

You want to believe that theres one relationship in life thats beyond betrayal. A relationship thats beyond that kind of hurt. And there isnt.

I'm not a big 'me' guy. I'm a 'we' guy. It's the way I was raised.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.

I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

I take one day at a time. I've always been like that.

For to be poised against fatality to meet adverse conditions gracefully is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression a positive triumph.

Even gang members imagine a future that doesn't include gangs.

Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.