Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

I'm interested. It's like you've got all these weird barriers set up, like you only want me to have access to this tiny part of you…

I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.

I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.