The amount which cannot be harnessed and domesticated, but insists on its own form of activity rather than one which is offered ready made, is the energy used for the creation of art.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained unless the significance and effects of that great fact can be grasped.

You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hide a grain of sand? On the beach

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.

Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you. Only you can figure out if it’s worth it.

Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.

If you're learning a new instrument, have fun.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.