“One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.”

“Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.”

“throw caution to the wind and just do it”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“But you have no house and no courtyard to your no-house, he thought. You have no family but a brother who goes to battle tomorrow and you own nothing but the wind and the sun and an empty belly. The wind is small, he thought, and there is no sun. You have four grenades in your pocket but they are only good to throw away. You have a carbine on your back but it is only good to give away bullets. You have a message to give away. And you're full of crap that you can give to the earth, he grinned in the dark. You can anoint it also with urine. Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man, he told himself and grinned again.”

“To make great art, one first must become insane and desperate.”