Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

This long disease, my life.

I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

I have very, very low expenditures, but still I manage to spend it all. I guess Hot Pockets are more expensive than I thought.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.