Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

Genius has no brother.

When we are overcome by some evil will, should we not tremble before the presence of the choirs of angels that surround us?

He that cannot paint must grind the colors.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

Man is in his short sojourn on earth equal to God in His eternity.