In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.

Forgive me if I don't shake hands.

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing.

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.