And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

Joy is what people take, happiness is what you make, pain is something you feel and the more you feed it the more it works.

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Love is when you find that thing, when you want to give more than you want to take.

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.

Streaking. That's a very stupid young man thing to do. There is something ruder I can't mention. Celebs On Sunday, you're kinda clean, aren't you? Hmm. Maybe we should stick to streaking.

Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.