As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.