The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are “Hello, Beautiful.

I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

The alchemist of the West has turned stone into glass But my alchemy has transmuted glass into flint Pharaohs of today have stalked me in vain

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.