I was never one to paint space, I paint air.

The right use of color can make any composition work.

If you are vain it is vain to sign your pictures and vain not to sign them. If you are not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them.

The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.

I do not think we were afraid of death

Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

I don't have to wear any other makeup as long as I have blush.