I never killed a man I didn't have to.
It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.
The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell. . . Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.
When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this. " I don't think my ideas about aging and about eternal life changed that much, but it became more poignant to me as I did get older and I could better imagine, as you sort of inch closer to death every day, why legacy, more than aging, becomes important to people.
People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.
The world is two thirds spaghetti and meatballs, one third syphilitic chancre.