Someone else's success is not your failure..

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to..

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself..

Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,….

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love..

I am often criticised for being rather accessible..

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence..

A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty li….

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possib….

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive..

Listen to presences inside poems..

I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. I'm one of those people who see….

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something compl….

Can art change the world? Maybe ... we should change the question: Can art change people's lives?.

I need someone who always wants more out of life. Like me - I'm just that way..

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American..

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites peo….

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing….

Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy..

The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The fi….