It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I look at nature, I see myself. Paintings are mirrors, so is nature.

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.

Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.

The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.

Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

...my sanity threatened to take a holiday without me.

What we do to animals, we do to ourselves.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

I do get very angry at things. My wife has to count to ten because if she gets annoyed at me being annoyed, then I get annoyed at her being annoyed at me being annoyed.

I think willpower is very valuable.