I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Tomorrow is promissed to no one. We can not waste today.

I have been very fortunate in that I'm not doing all network shows or all cable shows, television has really become a year-round process in the way that it's made.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.