The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

Really good mountain bikers are lousy judges of trail difficulty. We haven't a clue, we just ride.

Love is the only flame that can light up your soul and universe simultaneously.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.

A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.