With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.

Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.