I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

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.

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

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.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

In fairy tales, ” her mother used to say, “no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That’s what love is made of.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

If y'all fresh to death, then I'm deceased.

It is never too late to do right.