For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

If you look closely at any face, you'll start to see that different areas of the flesh tones are tinged with four other colors - red, green, purple and yellow.

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.

I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

No matter what the results, the act of searching will always enrich my work.

To be productive, you must convert every minute of your time.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

I'm probably more famous for sitting on the toilet than for anything else that I do.

I don't hire good coaches, I hire good people. If they turn out to be good coaches, too, that's a plus.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.