To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

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.

Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.

I'm the most important person in the lives of almost everyone I know and a good number of the people I've never even met.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Tormented by an unworldly hunger, yet not knowing how to satisfy it.

Lie to yourself if you want, but you’re not fooling me. Your excuses tell me that you didn’t really want it.

For the first time, the object of what I want is more important than fulfilling my desires.

For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!

So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

I never sort of really regret anything because you make your choices and I like to stand by them.