There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent guilt-ridden one - or both Usually both

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together...

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance

Snuggling is an art. And I’m no Rembrandt—I’m a cat. I am pure cuddling genius.

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.