To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
I'm not a politician. I'd make a lousy politician.
People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.
If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
I shut my eyes in order to see.
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
