Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

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Regardless of how distant your dreams may seem, every second counts.

When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

It's a tough life if you don't weaken.