"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

"I didn't have any interest in traditional art."

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

"I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."