One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world.

Every living word that gives life was once without form.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.

Confidence, the sexiest thing I put on in the morning.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.