Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Where Love meets action, there be God.

Prof McGonagall : ... bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. ...

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast program of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

If it comes down to you or the program that decision was made long ago.

Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.

That which sufficeth is not little.

Sometimes God redeems your story by surrounding you with people who need to hear your past so it doesn't become their future.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.