“I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.”

“I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.”

“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”

“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”

“People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.”

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

“All I owe the world is my art.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”