Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

I work without commercial considerations.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Trust me, sweetheart, there is a reason centuries of fathers have fought brutal wars to protect the concept of Immaculate Conception.

There is a Pirate in every one of us.

God is not looking at your abilities, talents, self-worth to be qualified to be his disciple

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.