I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

I haven't seen too many images that have impressed me!

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.