The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.

Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It is also the universal link into genius.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.

I am not particularly interested insaving time I prefer to enjoy it.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views

The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.

We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I've worked so hard to keep this family together.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.