I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.