While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

Every man should arm himself as quickly as he could, and come to the King.

I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

Joy to the world All the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.