“A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.”

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.