"You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy."

"If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference."

"Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity."

"People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."

"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."

"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."