The performance on the stage has its reasons in the performance induced in thousands of separate minds and this second performance is no less prodigious than the first.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

When you possess light within, you see it externally.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.

There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit.

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

I stand up to people.

Johnny Cash was the champion of the voiceless, the underdogs and the downtrodden. He was also something of a holy terror, like Abraham Lincoln with a wild side. He represented the best of America.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.