To blossom forth, a work of art must ignore or rather forget all the rules.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing.

Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can't buy, it radiates from within you.

I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

I can read your body language like a conversation

It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.