Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.

All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.

A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though.

When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!