Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

In the world there's a thing called collective consciousness. All of us billions of human beings together create that collective consciousness. With all the problems in our world, you can see that the collective consciousness is not so high.

I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.