But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

confident: have no fans... only flames.

Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS.

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that truly matter most.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

But I've also spread my net very wide. If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.