When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

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.

First live to be ‘sincere’ then ‘morality’ will follow.

Water is nothing if not ingemination, an encore to the tenacity of life.

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Johnny Duncan was one of the first opening acts I hired for my show, and he is the one who initiated me into astrology. I got hooked. It made a lot of sense to me.

My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.