Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Focus determines your feelings, which in turn influence your behaviour, actions and your destiny.

Life is love. Love is God. God is divine.

Grief isn't like a map you can follow. It's not a simple route with a destination. Sometimes you loop back and find yourself in the exact same place you left.

A man can do a lot of damage in the church. When someone comes here, he's got his guard up. But in church a man's wide open.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

The obvious thing for the cavalryman to do is to accept the fighting machine as a partner, and prepare to meet more fully the demands of future warfare.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.