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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn by influence. And some people have a huge impact on you, and that's how you become the artist you are.