With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

I’m going to tell you something that will make you very happy: your god is the one true god. Just remember, I am telling this to everyone… and I mean it.

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence else who could bear it?

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.