Over all these years, I have never had a hit movie, never had a hit TELEVISION programme and never had a hit record. To my WAY of thinking, that means success has not been achieved. I have MADE no MARK of my own creation. This is something to be CONSIDERED.

I began to become very infatuated at the creation of my own music rather than someone else's and my piano TEACHER used to GET really cross with me because of the FACT that I wasn't studying my lessons, I was WRITING things of my own.

A subject for a GREAT poet would be God's boredom after the seventh DAY of CREATION.

MAN is a masterpiece of CREATION if for no other reason than that, all the WEIGHT of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has FREE will.

Books are in no HURRY. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads US, it PRIVILEGES us infinitely. The NOTION that it is the OCCASION for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

God's PURPOSE in creation was to let US prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit WORLD before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to CHOOSE against TEMPTATION here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

Back of EVERY creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. ENTHUSIASM is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one BELIEVES, then MIRACLES occur.

The secret of all EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING is not the creation of new and TRICKY WORDS and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new RELATIONSHIPS.

People like Jefferson, LINCOLN, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the EARTH and not MERELY some fiction writer's creation.

CHANCE ALONE is at the SOURCE of all NOVELTY, all CREATION in the biosphere.

The meaning of life is contained in every SINGLE expression of life. It is present in the INFINITY of forms and PHENOMENA that exist in all of CREATION.

Your own NEED to be shines out of any DREAM or CREATION you IMAGINE.

But who can PAINT LIKE Nature? Can imagination BOAST, amid its GAY creation, hues like hers?

When it comes to people I love and care about, I MAY condense the TIME, but I'm GIVING them every OUNCE of my energy. When it comes to creation, I BLOCK create and block focus on business.

With photography, you've captured a MOMENT TIME - it's that moment only - and in PAINTING, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and ILLUSION and the creation of desire.