Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.

Through training there is knowledge. You can produce compassion, love, forgiveness. you can change yourself.

You are not a soul, you are not a mind, you are not a body. You are the controller of all three.

The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

Failure is... the highway to success.

I wish I could say farewell and retire but there is nothing for me to retire from.