Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

If I can aid one in distress, If I can make a burden less, If I can spread more happiness, Lord, show me how.

Which eternity can be bigger or smaller? But which reality can be an eternity in your mind?

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

What you focus on grows.

Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.