Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

What’s interesting about you is you.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

You can't be in the public eye without making mistakes and having some regrets and having people analyze everything you do.