Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

The real is empty and the empty real

I'm very happy in France making movies.

I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.