There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

I was an hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Where there is no common power, there is no law