An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

An artist is a person first.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

it’s not bravery to walk through the jungle with a lion’s escort, but it is with a rabbit

Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

I want to become less and less about the laptop. That's what's lovely about an orchestra - the physicality, the way every gesture relates to something you're hearing.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

Love is the binding force on every level of existence.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.