Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Their leafy whispers delighted her, and she promised her confidentiality by gently touching the trunks of both trees. They had held her secrets close to their hearts, she could do no less.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it?

Las Vegas is a 24-hour city. It never stops.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

I'm comfortable around just about everyone.

Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.