Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

Oh, now look what you've done. You've gone and pissed him off, " Breccan said as he stood behind two of the gypsies, one of his large hands clamped down on each of their shoulders.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

Love means never having to say you're sorry. That's why I never apologize to my mirror.

Everyday is a new opportunity.

We do not sit as a super-legislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.