You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

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.

TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage.

Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

If you go to a desert, you will hear this mysterious voice: Be wise, protect your forests!

He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it.

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.