A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.
Don't think of sea as color. Make it a solid that can support a boat. Think of 'wetness' as color-texture.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.
When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.
A man can be in two different places and he will be two different men. Maybe if you think of more places he will be more men, but two is enough for now.
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.