Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

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.

A willing spirit, a determined effort.

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community would actually redeem the world.

Sodomy will always be a sin with god, even if its legal in Massachusetts.

The theater of my mind has a seating capacity of just one, and its sold out for all performances.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

I rarely saw people sitting at computers producing real code wearing ties.