If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

When you flow like water you bring all of your talents and resources to your creative work... Flow around every obstacle you encounter, including any you've erected yourself.

You can't plan in advance for everything - every mood swing, every mistake you might make in execution, every shift in your circumstances. But you can keep updating your plan.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.

One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime... Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

Schools are a fountain of knowledge: some students come to drink, some to sip and others just to gargle.

Every emotional wound is due to a lack of love. Love is the cause and the remedy. Love is always the answer.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Art is not a career - it's a life.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.

if you men only knew how we love a man who can be just a woman to us sometimes!

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.