God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.