“Art is a way of survival.”

Sometimes, you want to meet somebody like yourself – who had an equally incredible life.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she’s in sorrow.

I love the yellow sun. It reminds me of Russia in the 30s for some reason.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right’ Sean’s doing his own thing.

When I turned 60, it didn’t bother me at all.

Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl’s best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.

Long, long time ago, I declared that all my works are a form of a prayer/a wish.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

One day we wake up to be thankful about basic things.

The regret of my life is that I have not said ‘I love you’ often enough.

It’s a waste of time to think that if you coloured a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.

It’s time to miss the lost.

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful – I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Pop art is about liking things.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art is what you can get away with.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.