Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

If you are looking for answers for your life, know that the answers are within you. When you close your eyes, and focus on your inner God (meditate), you will know what to do. Trust yourself!

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

Trust me. I'm a genius.

Many times we say Jesus is first in our life, and i get that, but Jesus should not be first, He should be center of everything.

I've always fought for what I believe in. I used to get made fun of for dancing, and I would argue back, or fight the kids, or do whatever I had to do to shut them up. I have that in me.

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.