In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.