There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

It is only those who feel disconnected and seperated from the Oneness of All That Is that can ever commit evil deeds.

It's okay for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.