It's not that the CREATIVE ACT and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more LIKE you blurt something out and then ANALYZE it.

I don't FOLLOW any SYSTEM. All the laws you can lay down are only so many PROPS to be cast aside when the HOUR of CREATION arrives.

I felt the most INTENSE pleasure in piercing the stone in ORDER to MAKE an abstract form and SPACE; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

I would RATHER do what I did than crawl in FRONT of a ritualistic Left and lie the WAY those other comrades did BETRAY my own soul.

I LOOK back on my LIFE like a good DAY's work, it was DONE and I am SATISFIED with it.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their OPINION, which is DIFFERENT. That's one of the reasons GEORGE Lucas never DIRECTED again.

All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave ETERNAL VITALITY behind even after its DECAY. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given BIRTH to me.

After all, we are not FRENCH and NEVER can be, and any attempt to be so is to DENY our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the SURFACE.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so FAMILIAR with with it that one recognizes it WITHOUT LOOKING at it.

Toby not being there doesn't BOTHER me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we GET ALONG and as long as they've got an understanding of what I WANT and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he LEFT, it was difficult.