“There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.”

“There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.”

“You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.”

“Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.”

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”

“Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely...”

“There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.”