Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Tears are God's way of cleansing the heart.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.