If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

We all had, at some point, matches we should have won and we didn't and that's the game. That's just the way the sport is. Otherwise, if everything was written before, we don't need to play.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Do not worry, and worry.

It's just that some things more important for this and less important for that, and this is true regardless the style of the art.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.