A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

May you find grace to be great.

Your first thought is what you've been conditioned to think

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

You do this often?" she asked."Drink or hijack women?

Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

It is so often self who tries to live the Christian life. No wonder we need breaking. As long as self is in control, God can do little with us.