During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

All creative activity begins with movement.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.

When asked for the details of an ideal date, I answered, "I want him to take me to a book store, so he can see just how happy I can be.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

There's nobody I look up to, really.

Spare me the people who ask, 'Have you thought about ... losing weight, hiring an assistant, buying a Pentium, working with an etiquette specialist, coloring your hair?

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.