I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Our anger could become a force of deliverance.

Having manners is the sweet scent that calls you to the rose.

He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.

Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, navigate the world.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.