“Everything has its poetry. 94”

“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.”

“The paper is patient, but the reader is not.”

“It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102”

“Tenderness is the repose of passion.”

“When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.”

“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.”