Art Is About Paying Attention.

The Main Thing That Attracts Me To Buddhism Is Probably What Attracts Every Artist To Being An Artist - That It's A Godlike Thing. You Are The Ultimate Authority. There Is No Other Ultimate Authority.

My Secret Dream Is To Write An Epic Poem. That's Probably The Most Pretentious Thing I've Said.

Writers Want To Summarize: What Does This Mean? What Did We Learn From This? That's A Very 19th-century Way Of Thinking About Art, Because It Assumes That It Should Make Our Lives Better Or Teach Us Something.

As An Artist I'd Choose The Thing That's Beautiful More Than The One That's True.

All Of Nature Talks To Me - If I Could Just Figure Out What It's Saying - Trees Are Swinging In The Breeze. They're Talking To Me. Insects Are Rubbing Their Legs Together. They're All Talking. They're Talking To Me.