Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

One has to be careful what one takes when one goes away forever.

Because from now on, for you, I'll be searching for those moments of always within never/Beauty, in this world.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

Iraq is not about oil.

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter - your voters weren't locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.