I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

Be careful! If the opinion of others is your gauge, then it is also your goal. If you concern yourself with what others think, then you can only go as far as others think. You're better than that!

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

You never won’t know what you can’t achieve until you don’t achieve it.

Some men over-tweeze their eyebrows, and it's just too perfect. Men are meant to have kind of a bushy brow. Too much aftershave is also off-putting; it's one of my pet hates.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.