All Children are Artists

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.

I'm a tad insane, but I promise you won't forget me.

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

If you see anything, always deny that you've seen; or if perchance something pains you, deny that you're hurt.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.