“Art was an additional emotion applied to skillful technique.”

Life is a play that does not allow testing.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness

I am an emotional cuss.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Love is life on a higher plain of existence, working through man to unite the forces of nature into a perfect whole.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

My only enemy is time.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful.

I am an artist, not a politician.

Laughter is very close to tears and vice versa.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer’s art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories–when his dancing days are over.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I learned to make art with my broken heart.

Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.