In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.

Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

I was never coached; I was never told how to hold a bat.

How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship.

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.