“The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world.”

“Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love.”

“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”

“We free our own mindseach time we pause to wonderwhether we are free.”

“Change happens for youthe moment you want somethingmore than you fear it.”

“I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are.”

“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.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”

“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”

“Imagination is a holy impressions.”