In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

Because of this the representation I'm interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.

Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the beauty of your love.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

The next great technology revolution might be around the corner, but it won't automatically improve most people's lives. That will depend on politics, which is indeed ugly but also inescapable.

The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.

Everything I do and everything Pixar does is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.

Love always wins over hate.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid.

I've had deals over the years where I just haven't had good chemistry with the person across the table from me, so I've said to one of my brothers, 'You know what, you will be more effective than I will.' And that takes a level of confidence.

You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.

Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I'm a girl from Jersey.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.