The way of a creative mind is always positive, it always asserts; it does not know the doubts which are so characteristic of the scientific mind.

The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content lies in themselves.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.

The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

We affirm depth as the only pictorial and plastic form of space.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.