Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Neither your mother nor I have any imagination at all and we certainly didn't bring you up to have one

Tears are valuable, but when they touch the ground they are no more different than urine.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

There is always something sad about the trams, may be because they are like our lives: They appear from nothingness and disappear in the horizon of the crowds.

You can trust a dog with your life...but not your lunch

Jesus asks for far more than you ever thought, but offers more than you ever dreamed.