We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

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.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

I trust life not because I trust the world, but because I trust the God who lives in my heart.

Fools are the gift of the God to glorify the wise!

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.