The artist has only to trust his eyes.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

....What I learned was that these athletes were not disabled, they were superabled. The Olympics is where heroes are made. The Paralympics is where heroes come.

Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring. . .

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.