You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.
I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.
I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I never, ever skip yoga. I use it to calm down and slow down.
But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
All the arts are predominantly national, and therefore the Australian Film Commission should be funding us. The battle gets more and more vicious each year.
We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production.
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.
I'm a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting... it would be like somebody watching you have sex - painting is that personal to me.
