“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.”

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”

“It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.”

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.”

“No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.”

“We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.”

“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.”