“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.”

“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”

“To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.”

“Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.”

“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”

“I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.”