“Money doesn't bring you happiness, it brings you the freedom to find it.”

“A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due to the all-consuming obsessive love for their art.”

“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”

“Rules kill art.”

“once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.”

“Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done”

“Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.”