And so artistic creation is the metamorphosis of the external physical aspects of a thing into a self-sustaining spiritual reality .

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.

You'll stay with me? Until the very end, said James. They won't be able to see you? asked Harry. We are part of you, said Sirius. Invisible to anyone else.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Beware how you give your heart.

No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon.

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way

We have a puppy named Lucy... two cats... goldfish... and Louis, our lop earred rabbit.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

. . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .