The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we’d be too busy en-joy-in’ life to start a war.

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

The Arts are not drugs. They are not guaranteed to act when taken. Something as mysterious and capricious as the creative impulse has to be released before they can act.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a...

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Let’s always try to paint the truth … our art must be made to mean something.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

… an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...