The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter.

What’s interesting about you is you.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.

You can´t gossip about somebody you prayed for. (sb on your prayer list)

It takes true courage and real humility to say NO or YES!

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

I'd like to do something that hits close to home.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.