Everything is shared by everything else; there are no discontinuities.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection.

Ideas and thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

The coherent way of investigating any field is to examine its possible relatedness to other things.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Choice and chance structure art and nature.

That tonight you’re falling asleep in my arms. Waking up the same place too.

I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong.

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration