“When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.”

If you love a person you will not interfere with his personal life. You would not dare to break the boundaries of his inner world.

The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.

You are not here accidentally – you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you.

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

No relationship can truly grow if you go on holding back.

Domination is a sort of hatred, anger, enmity.

Love the person, but give the person total freedom. Love the person, but from the very beginning make it clear that you are not selling your freedom.

When I say be creative I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything.

Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Without freedom you can never be happy.

Without freedom you can never be happy.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

I love my body. I’m very much OK with it. I don’t think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

The center of the stage is where I am.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Ignorance and arrogance are the artist’s and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway.”

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I’m so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.