“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”

“Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.”

“More of me comes out when I improvise.”

“The only real influence I've ever had is myself.”

“My world has changed so much. Everything around me has perceptibly shifted in a direction I hadn’t seen coming. The people around me, the ones I once thought I knew so well have transformed into strangers. Worst of all, I can’t recognize the person I have become.”

“Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you’d have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.”