When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

To find is the thing.