When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
The job of art is to turn time into things.
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Among the few I have indicated, is there no dynamic man of action, the rebel who will help determine the aspect of the collective expression of tomorrow? Ponder this question and know that to make beautiful creations for the sake of their aesthetic value will have no social significance tomorrow, will be nonsensical self-gratification. Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel.
The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
I don't think there's something that you have to 'get' with my music. It tends toward the dramatic side rather than the narrative.
I write every day for most of the work day, and I try to write 2,500 words per day. . . If I don't make it a routine and treat it like a job, I'd never get anything done.