You must always work.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The avoidance of pain is the avoidance of life.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

My handicap? Woods and irons.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

I've never been engaged. I definitely believe in the institution of marriage.

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.