It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do.
I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously.
An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.
Red squirrels. . . you don't see many of them since they became extinct.
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card. " He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. " So I stabbed him.
Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.
I don't believe too much in originality. . . you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.