The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Do not hate someone else’s ‘shine’…but have enough courage to look in the mirror and see the truth for what it is.

You have to be brave when you are stupid

Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.

I can only control what I do. I can try to suggest and be open, but trust is the key.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]

History is philosophy teaching by experience.