Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

I'm a competitor. And I don't want to say, hey, just because this person is a woman or this person is a minority, that they're not going to get the white male vote.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries