I am so rich that I must give myself away.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I believe in the immortality of all creatures.

I am so rich that I must give myself away.

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life.

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

Everything is dead while it lives.

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

Africa touches me. At night, there's this thought in your brain that a million years ago we started here.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes a chair in a empty room.

Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

I'm very close to my parents and my grandma.

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal but in using the time while it burns.

I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

The Philippines must ensure that it adopts, as much as possible, an equi-balancing strategy towards both China and America. To push back against Chinese adventurism by deepening Philippine dependence on another power runs counter to the very logic of protecting its national sovereignty.

We inhabit a culture thats disgusted by intellect.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.