A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last

There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

I try to spend my time on areas that I think are important for the future, and where I think I can add value.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.

My greatest inspiration is memory.