To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

From today, painting is dead.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.

Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

You can't be attending to your dream only when you perfectly feel like doing so. Its pursuit has to become a big part of your daily life.

It's going to take all of us, gathering our voices and acting together. Saying, "Not on our watch" to create a future for humans, animals and the environment.

The right to search for truth implies also a duty.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.

There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

If the President does it, it can't be illegal.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

In aesthetic theory it might be extremely difficult, if not quite impracticable, to draw a line between the canon of classicism, or regard for the archaic, and the canon of beauty.