“All art is contemporary, if it's alive. And if it's not alive, what's the point of it?”

“There is no point to be alive if you can't do deadlift.”

“The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.”

“The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature — translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.”

“The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.”

“The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

“You'll be alive', he pointed out. 'That's what matters. Enjoy what you have, every little detail of wherever you are. Don't focus on where you aren't.”

“At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.”

“From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.”

“The talkies are the only art that would attract Leonardo da Vinci were he alive to-day. This art is a baby giant, as clumsy as all babies are…we don't know what the baby will be doing and saying when it grows up. But we are sure it will make its mark in the world.”