What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

Anybody who believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbor, & should entertain his guest generously.

Vision without execution is delusion. The joy is in the results

Those who want to burn books are either afraid of the ideas contained within the covers or they haven't the courage to stand up for the views which they themselves profess to hold.