It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Wonder is the salt of the earth.

If the true nature of everything isn't extraordinary, then God would be ordinary.

Most of the time things against nature are scarier than the scariest things of nature

That's the problem with memories: you can visit them but you can't live with them.

Anything can be painted without representation.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.