“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the music created from the heart and by the wonder of the eyes and ears beholding them in joy. Art and music are the windows of the soul of any country. The greater the art created, the greater the country.”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. ”

“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m”

“...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.”

“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”