Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

They do not love, that do not show their love.

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

It you taste nice I may bite!

To talk about the senselessness of the battle was to attribute sense to war itself.

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

We have creative freedom because of budgets. Ever since I have been doing low budget movies, we've really had creative freedom.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.