“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

I love Adele. Adele is my favorite artist. She’s British. She’s funny. She’s just an amazing, incredible voice, and I love to sing as well.

I never draw except with brush and paint.

She was an artist on top of me, and soaked my sheets with poetry.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.