A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Only great men may have great faults.

While Zinoviev is in the majority he is for iron discipline.... When he is in the minority... he is against it.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.

I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.