One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

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.

All appreciations and praises are worthless unless the one you love appreciates

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

Our alliances and partnerships are not directed against any nation.

I'm not about being sexy. I'm about the music.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.