What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

Believe the incredible and you can do the impossible.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

The past is a closed door.

There are nice, funny, totally good-looking guys out there. You just have to know where to look…and apparently, where NOT to look.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.