The body is the one thing you can't fake; it's just got to be there.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.