What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

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.

Little Maiden Encounters FearDeepest regions walked she therelittle maiden sweet and fairventured far from the pathnever a whispernever a laugh...

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

If you're having fun, if you're working with people you love working with, then the results are always going to be exciting.

I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

Emotion is changed by motion.