I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.

Further editing deepens a story.

Private fireworks are far superior to public fireworks.

You're incredible. I can feel your power and it's more than anything I...Violet, " he swallowed, watching me in awe. "It's like...It's like you're as powerful as an angel."-Lincoln

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.

The only known cure for fear is faith.

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours.

The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.