I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness.

You have to keep on the very edge of something all the time or the picture dies.

The reaction of the public plays a very important role. It gives us an adrenaline boost, especially when people start to shout and clap their hands in time with the music. That really helps us to go on.

At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife'... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

The prudent see only the difficulties the bold only the advantages of a great enterprise the hero sees both diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate and so conquers.

I think in all cultural organizations there has to be renewal. I'm also of a certain age that someone new can come in with a breath of fresh air. Things change, and I think that's important.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.

If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

I have a pretty good ear.

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I'm motivated by my love to share and teach. I love sharing things that inspire me, and I love connecting with people. Being a part of a community is in the millennial DNA.

I can't believe that I get to stand on the stages I stand on every summer, and get to sing the songs that I sing.