"Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life."

"No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love."

"For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art."

"I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell."

"I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."

"If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that."

"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate all that was once so beautiful is dead."

"The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. You're feeling gun shots. I mean, it's not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. That's what you feel."