To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.

Question for your life: If the man of your dreams existed in two dimensions only, would you try to print duplicates of him?

Jarod Kintz

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

Jerry Saltz

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz

The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.

David Walliams

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

Christopher Pike

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

David Blaine

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

Chuck Jones

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Martha Plimpton

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.

Mario Burata

Being an author of banned books is cool, I've decided.

Lauren Myracle

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith