All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.
He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
I'm actually pretty smart when you get to know me.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.
