Great Throughts Treasury

"You must create your own world. I am responsible for my own world."

"The freer that women become, the freer will men be. Because when you enslave someone – you are enslaved."

"Art is the essence of awareness."

"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within."

"I believe in my work and the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally. Everything must fall by the wayside by comparison. "

"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable."

"I think all great innovations are built on rejections."

"Greatness breaks laws. "