The results are in great need greater ambition.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
It must happen to us all…We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.
Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.