“Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something.”

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Success is what sells.

I always notice flowers.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

Perception precedes reality.

Fashion is more art than art is.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can’t be on your own, which is always so much better.

Land really is the best art.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He’s amazing really.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

No matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.