I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

And sometimes the question that you pose or the project that you start yourself turns into something else, you know, but at least it gets you started.

In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.