“Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.”

“Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.”

“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.”

“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”

“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”

“Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.”

“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.”