Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.