The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

I've been in a relationship for almost two years now, so I'm kind of locked in there. My mind doesn't even really remember when I was single, to be honest.

The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

If you shake your fist, the other guy will shake his too. But if you extend your hand to shake their hand, then they will extend theirs also, and you've made a friend.