You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

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.

The spark of light in the soul is beginning of self awareness.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you.

I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

Regrets don't help anything.

Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life.