I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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.

We are products of time

Without emotion, what's the point of being human?

Eternity. Isn't that word terrifying?

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

Tennis has given me soul.

You can be happy in any circumstances, you simply need to believe in God.

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.