Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Do not run away from your challenges. You must endure and overcome each challenge.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.

I don't mind what I play, really.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

I was loaded with sheer ability, spelled i-n-h-e-r-i-t-a-n-c-e.

There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.