From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

I felt before I thought

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

The landscapist lives in silence.

Coat your words with honey if you want to catch bees.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

I never complain that I'm tired, because I know as soon as I get a good nine hours' sleep, I'm cool.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.