Art is a path on which we honour our world.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

The best way to discredit something is to come with a better way of doing that thing.

You may not be a great success in everything, but every time you try you will learn something.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things

I was picking up surfing, which I also fell in love with. Then I was like, man, to combine the two [free ride and surfing ] would be perfect.