I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

A prayer without faith is absolutely meaningless.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

Every guest hates the others and the host hates them all.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfil their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I'm remembered in a good way.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.