Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

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.

I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us, and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during songs and saying pretty ridiculous things in-between. We're having fun.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

I want to see the original long-form certificate of Donald Trump's Republican registration.