How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!

Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.

I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.

Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

Why try to pursue what is completed?

You'll know you're amazing when you get devoted to making other people amazing.

Music is like having a conversation. All musicians inspire each other, and they're all geared to play something that matters.