Ambition is the death of joy.
Punish the pushers and shovers by letting them get ahead.
Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.
Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.
Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others.
Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.
What is more arrogant than to assume that of all the paths through the woods yours is the only true one.
Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity.
Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.
The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.
Art is a picture of the spirit.
The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.
An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way.
Through the power of art imaginary landscapes turn into real ones.
Things imagined are as real as things seen.
Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.
An artist's work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.
Once you've mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy.
Once you master starting and stopping, the rest is easy.
