When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.