You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

See how these Christians love one another.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.