I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

All passions deserve respect but some may not be for everybody. Painting, film, photography, acting, dancing and etc.

In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some ..." Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.