I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

The soul is sustained by spirituality.

While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

You're a medicine cat. I understand what that means now. StarClan go with you, Leafpool. I'll never forget you.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

The star shines for everyone in the world, but in reality, it itself is surrounded in darkness.