To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

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.

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.

If you like to fill your life with joyJust be lovingJust be caring And just be kind.

It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it.

No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.

I meddled in things that man must leave alone

I don't think of myself as a photographer. I've engaged questions regarding photography's role in culture... but it is an engagement with a problem rather than a medium.