Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.