Art is a protest against death.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

If you can't paint, paint Big.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Only someone you loved could make you wear that kind of expression. Someone who had once loved you knew how to get to the part of you where the pain lived.

I ask about the sky, but the answer is about a rope.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness a jolt from normality a sharpening of the edge of appetite his own little festival of the Saturnalia a brief excursion from his way of life.

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.