“There are only two types of women: goddesses and doormats.”

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That’s the only way he will do original work.

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.

I have never made radically different experiments. Whenever I wanted to say something, I said it the way I believed I should.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

Obviously, you’re known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You’re a person a lot longer before and after you’re a professional athlete.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

I’m not interested in a good man’s life. I’m interested in contradiction.

When a group of people get together, it’s collective power. You know that you’re doing it for the good.

All I’ve tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That’s been my main drive. It’s not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.