Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

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.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves nor half the evil they say of others.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.