“Love finds lazy writers And makes example out of them Nailing them in history”

“An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.”

“Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.”

“A shadow has no relativeshe is universally orphan”

“For love, we live For love, we dieFor love, we dream and get ready to be lied”

“Poetry is and should not be explained Its not a theory not a formula or a set patternIts a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”