A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

True love comes from the heart, it is very simple and nonjudgmental.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

Let every one ascertain his special business and calling, and then stick to it if he wants to be successful.

DJ Jazzy Jeff is the best DJ you can have at a party. Did you see his playlist? He has good taste.

After all, what would be "beautiful" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: "I am ugly"?.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.