Forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

I don't think I'm wrong when I say that the most beautiful objects of the "stone age" were made of skin, fabric, and especially wood. The "stone age" ought to be called the "wood age." How many African statues are made of stone, bone, or ivory? Maybe one in a thousand! And prehistoric man had no more ivory at his disposal than African tribes. Maybe even less. He must have had thousands of wooden fetishes, all gone now.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.