All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Lighting a cigarette with a sense of achievement for company made the journey worth it.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.