For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Her memories splashed my nights with a magical illumination. Her thoughts were my intoxication!

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

Nothing should be an issue when it comes to sexuality in the first place. Music is the one artform where people feel comfortable coming out.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

I’ve always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it’s in daily life or in art.

Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.