"Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper."

“His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.”

Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

“My art was not an answer - it was a question.”

Source : "My Art Is Not An Answer - It Is A Question". Interview with Yuichi Konno, www.helnwein.com. September 6, 2003.

“Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.”

“The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.”

“We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.”

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

Source : An Essay on Criticism l. 525 (1711). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Although known in Latin (humanum est errare, it is human to err) and in earlier English versions, this saying is generally quoted in Pope's words." The ODP cites "To offend is humaine, to repent diuine" (Henry Wotton, 1578) and "To erre is humane, to repent is divine" (James Howell, 1659).

“I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.”

“Being popular doesn't mean you're better than anyone else.”