When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Lucknow's architecture is a part of life in the city.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.