Everything I've seen becomes real once it becomes memory. The films I've seen are interchangeable with things that have really happened to me.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.

I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.