Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

Be you. You are a holy-self.

But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I’d like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.

A little tomato who knows her onions can go out with an old potato and come home with a lot of lettuce and a couple of carats.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.