“You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.”

“Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.”

“The road is better than the end.”

“If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.”

“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.”

“Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.”

“A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry, once he's satisfied the predator and prey live peacefully together”