In very large measure each of us holds the key to the blessings of the Almighty upon us. If we wish the blessing, we must pay the price.
A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.
I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.
Nature, the sun itself, produces color effects. . . instantaneously. The impression of these evanescent visions is what we make desperate attempts to catch and fix by any means at hand. At such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived.
All the mistakes committed by artists are due to their having separated themselves from truth, believing that their imagination is stronger. There is nothing stronger than nature. With nature in front of us we can do everything well.
Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.
My only ambition was to create an honest picture that would interpret nature as she really is, as she ought to be seen.
[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
The inaugural parade is like an extension of the president's personality,. . Dwight Eisenhower, for example. A conservative guy. A military man. Short and simple was what his inauguration parade was all about.
[Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.