But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Oscar may be the world’s most glorious way of honoring your work, but the real award for a filmmaker is the contentment which you receive from making your film.

ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

Time spent in honor of God for the salvation of souls is never badly spent.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Never explain, never complain.