There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.

Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

While we've taken seeds into space, and astronauts on the International Space Station have eaten lettuce they've grown, we haven't produced fruit in space, so we can't pollinate something.

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

What does it matter, all is grace.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Rejoice! Rejoice! Rejoice!