The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

The dream of reason produces monsters

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.