An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.