Tell me where it is gone — then I will tell you where it came from.
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much to be done.
I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
My pictures had and have secret lives, and so there were things I did not tell, a lot of stuff I did not say back then which I'm saying now. . . I intend to continue allowing forms of secret life to paintings I'm working on right now because it excites me to do that.
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
I've played a mother many times, even in tragic things like, "I Dreamed of Africa," so I know how it is to lose a child cinematically. I have so much compassion on so many fronts, for women who have lost children or tried for years and couldn't have them.
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.