Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I call architecture frozen music.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

I’m nobody, who are you?

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you’re sort of writing the same song over and over again.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Bhai was my hero and he had immense influence on me.

Aim for the highest.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Nature is not human hearted.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!