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.

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.

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.

Keep your heads up! We are sinking!

If you can't love yourself, how can you love others?

I'd rather apologize to you for not being who you want me to be than apologize to God for not being who I should be.

I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

Never's just the echo of forever, lonesome as a love that might have been. Let me go on lovin' and believin' 'til it's over. Please don't tell me how the story ends.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Little changes and little choices add up to be revolutionary changes in your life.