"I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality"

"It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture"

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame"

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small"

"I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza"

"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others"

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"