In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

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.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

If you want to be successful, just meditate, man. God will tell you what people need.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends.

People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

If there is something more powerful than destiny, this must be the human being who bears destiny unshaken.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

I know that. What's your point?