The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

No one can teach that which is inside another, each person must find it on his own and find a way to express it.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao looks like a great adventure.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

If we are grateful, we shall be glad.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

I think the first year and a half that I was in New York I was having trouble just living somewhere. Back in them days the city was a lot different than it is now.

Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.

Words without experience are meaningless.