I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

There’s not some idea I’m going to create a work that’s going to change everybody’s consciousness.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

I’m a painter in sound.

Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that’s being pushed in a manner in schools that’s completely reprehensible. It’s not education, in my estimation. It’s a form of indoctrination.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it.

I don’t see any boundaries between any of the art forms. I think they all inter-relate completely.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

Music is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

All art is but imitation of nature.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

I hate the idea of genres.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Education is the best provision for old age.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.