Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn’t refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

Mind over mattress.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

People want to feel hopeful.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

I’m much healthier now.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

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 thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Touring is hard on the body.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

If you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.