Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

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

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history art architecture everything an illustrator needs. Europe is after all the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

That Moorish architecture is all over the place of course. It affects me everywhere I see it as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

If you're into architecture and you're from the West everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music architecture novels and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

I studied architecture in New York. So really I was very moved like everyone else to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Every one who has a heart however ignorant of architecture he may be feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.