To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing.

Seeing that picture, for me, was like Chartres Cathedral.

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself as much as to understand what one is drawing.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

It's hard to be a two-pitch guy. People tell you that, but you don't really believe it.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

All men are born truthful and die liars.

I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

Having a sister is like having a best friend you cant get rid of. You know whatever you do they will still be there.

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romney's is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

I wouldn't call myself a dinosaur.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

I love Les Beaux Peeps. Everyone in that band works together really well. I used to go out to see bands a lot; now it seems there just aren't any I like.

Hawaii is not a state of mind but a state of grace.

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.

I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.