I love, and the world is mine!

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

I love and the world is mine!

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

I'm looking for uncommon people.

When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army

Problems are not problems at all, but results that are dissatisfying.

A slave in the fields one night He's running along Gets far enough to be a free man And he's feeling so strong

I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.

I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

Good poets borrow, great poets steal