It is true that every artist has his own religion.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

If you put your fears and doubts behind you, you would surely discover that you too have the seeds of greatness in you.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two

Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.

You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.