Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.