As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.