My mother said to me "If you become a soldier you'll be a general if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Of course I'm out of my mind. It's dark and scary in there.

Some day the road that you choose will be your destiny The hope and the anxiety you grasped tightly Will surely move you and me, because it will become a light

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

I feel worried, deeply worried, only about one thing - the possibility that we fall... that we cannot avoid an atomic war.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

Everybody has a different journey.

The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet.

I feel comfortable working with people who are secure in themselves and confident in what they do.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.