It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel uncomfortable about it and wish they hadn't! It's only human nature.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you'.