I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

You can either buy shoes or paint.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Count your blessings

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

After Peepshow, I really dont know what my next project will be. But I would like to keep on doing theater. I think I could do that forever.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf... than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

I like my life. It's good.

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.