“Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!”

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

To become an artist you have to be curious.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.

The way that we tried to approach every piece of music is, if the song had a brain, it would be aware of its catalog.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

I love getting into people’s brains and understanding the creative impetus for something.