If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

My sisters are stronger and my brother's bigger than me.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

You can't possibly be right for everything.

I throw down a lot on paper and on tape. Sometimes while I'm practicing on the guitar, I'll think of a song.

Be prepared and be honest.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

Useless to worry until we find outselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.