The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

There is no must in art because art is free.

Everything starts from a dot.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.

The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

It wasn't the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.

I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.