Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

Her grandparents’ house was an old crammed up space just like all the others there, but to Sofia it had the luxuries of a palace and the reverence of a church.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

The other thing that I love too is the enthusiasm of the QVC customer. She loves fashion, she loves looking great, and she loves discovering something new.

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

The prohibition of drugs causes crime. You don't have to legalize, just decriminalize it.

You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.

...(I)ndividual selfhood is expressed in the self's capacity for self-transcendence and not in its rational capacity for conceptual and analytic procedures.

We're not lowly sinners, we're not worthless beings. We are something jewel-like and beautiful.