They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

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.

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

Stop Judging, Start Loving!

We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I don’t know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

Peace is something very dear. If you've been through wars and operations and battles, you want peace.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.