“Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. ”

“Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.”

“To fly we have to have resistance. ”

“I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content. From a knowledge of those limitations and its richness of experience emerges a symphony of colours, richer than all, its green speaking of life and strength, its orange speaking of golden content and its purple of resignation and death”

“If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come.”

“Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.”

“My mind took up a chant. Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Make me hurt, cry, bleed. Make my outside match my inside. Help me get it out, because I can't cry on my own”