The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species, We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.

Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.