For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

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.

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Empowered girls will be the women that change this world.

Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.