True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

In life, you have 3 choices. Give up, give in, or give it your all.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Everything seems to me to pass so quickly that we must concentrate on how to die rather than on how to live. How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross with Christ.