You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.

I paint because the spirits whisper madly inside my head.

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God's careless splatters

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

The language of art is celestial in origin and can only be understood by the chosen.

Can the darkness condemn the light?

I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Take pride in how far you have come and have faith in how far you can go.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

I knew that Weird Girl was going to be kind of amazing. The secret truth of Weird Girl is that I put her in there originally because I needed some way to set the boys' names.

Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.

The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.