Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

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.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Love and peace are not just words, they are a way of life. And in an honest living, love will always conquer.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars... high over the stars sweep the angels.

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

When you start out, you have to make compromises, which include doing films of lower quality.

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.