Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
The impossible exists only until we find a way to make it possible
The real investment in life is not so much in the house you have, or the car. Your real investment is what you carry in the heart, and if you carry that passion for anything that you do, then nothing can really stop you. You enjoy the greater moments of everything.
If you worry, you die. If you don't worry, you also die. So why worry?
As a boy I dreamed that I could go on a boat with Jean Cousteau. But I was never given the opportunity. I am now giving that opportunity to young people around the world who would like to experience the beauty of nature.
The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.
Any ordinary man can. . . surround himself with two thousand books. . . and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.
O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.
Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.