Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.