“They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

All that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.

You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

I think it’s a response in our minds to perfection. It’s too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

We all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.

I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.

I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistake.

Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

I’ve always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

At this time, the aircraft was completely secret.

I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn’t come out of the political process

I don’t really like to write music at all unless I am completely unbothered by touring.

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely

I don’t want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of ‘Idiocracy’ and ‘Borat,’ without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, “God, no, I’m completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.”