Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.
The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.
The theme, or harmony, of a painting can be created by any one of its visual elements. A single colour. . . repetition of shapes. . . Light can be a theme.
Being true to oneself more often leads one toward success rather than away from it.
Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft. . . Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.
The way we see is critical to understanding how others will read our compositions.
Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?
I was watching the Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? Why don't they just call that one the female?
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.