The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Color is all. When color is right form is right. Color is everything color is vibration like music everything is vibration.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

Survival often feels like an indignity.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workersentrepreneurs and save more money through conservation and energy efficiency.

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring.

Life isn't like a 'Full House' episode.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present quantum mechanics, monism in the sense of materialism is not.

I started watching movies my grandpa did, and I saw what an impact they made on the world. That's when I said, 'Hey, I want to do that too.'

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.