Art is not nature... There was a lot more to be got out of color.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other.

15 of the 19 [September 11th] hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry.

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.