Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

When you build a house You nail down memories Paint and stain the fabric of time

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.

I know guys that are going to struggle. I know guys that don't play and 'bean' up. To me, that's becoming pretty reliant on something. It's going to have an effect. I don't think there's any doubt.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box.

How the English love playing at being naughty boys!

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.