My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Form follows beauty.

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

Deserve your dream.

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.