To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

I've actually trademarked the term 'Momager,' which is what I am.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

Perhaps this is what it was all about. Leaning on God when life made no sense, as well as when the answers seem clear.