The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
I'm not only passionate about dressing women and helping them feel and look their best, but also about helping to give a stronger voice to women and children in need around the world.
With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot.
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.
Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.