authenticity Quotes

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

I do not seek. I find.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.