No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Children make your life important.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.