An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

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.

Most beauty lies in the LIES of the beholder!

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

Let go of what you can't control. Channel all that energy into living fully in the now.

If a theory purports to explain everything, then it is likely not explaining much at all.

I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.