But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

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.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.

Freedom from one man is just another one.

Often the deep valleys of our present will be understood only by looking back on them from the mountains of our future experience.

There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.