I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

My life provides me with these images that become expressions of my daily experience.

The season of evil, " I echoed. "Protect your soul.

God has sent us with treasure of thoughts, we just need to explore that

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Men and women are like right and left hands it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.

We need to remind politicians they don't work for the big banks - they work for us.

Is any knowledge worthless? Try to think of an example.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.