When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

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.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

Acting can be so much fun that it's easy to forget that what you're doing is a job. But if I've got my tie on, I'm going to work.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

It's very hard for me to relax.

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.