You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

The principal person in a picture is light.

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

Quite possibly, this depressive illness was the familiar sort that grew from perfectionist expectations.

The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

He was the kind of man everyone would fall in love with, even if they didn't want to.

There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.