Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...”Leione

In my beginning is my end.

When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

The first time I showed the tattoo it was big news in the newspaper. 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake!

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.