I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.
Do you believe in God?" "Which one?
Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.
I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
It is in order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call 'The Ten Thousand Things' around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes. . . Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.
Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.
Kids are really cruel.
I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.
If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.