When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.

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.

I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

[ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.