I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.