Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

I loved you, and my love had no return, And therefore my true love has been my death.

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures.

I have no time for lies and fantasy, and neither should you. Enjoy or die.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!