Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.