When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

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.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

.. I suffered with you. I hurt with you. I bled with you -not only because we're bonded, but because the love I have for you." ~ Eric Northman in Dead in The Family.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

A photograph is a mirror; mostly it reflects the prejudices of the viewer.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.