This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

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

What inspires me about rap is that it’s written in an almost poetic way. I just think it’s so cool.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Music is really driving my whole life.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

All of my writing is God-given.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don’t fit in a very interesting way.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

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

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

I really want a movie made on Sachin Tendulkar’s life. That is something I’m looking forward to. There will be so much emotion to that movie.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.