I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Have the courage to rise from the challenges of life like a phoenix from the flames or you'll get lost in the ashes of despair, pain, and regret.

Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!

I like to stay fit by being generally active.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

Initially when I stopped playing, I had accumulated some burnout.

We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.