I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

I didn't give up in the nine months it took to get here, so I'm sure as hell not going to give up now!

Autumn brings the falling of leaves and cool days.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Push YOURSELF to the edge of YOUR limits. That's how they expand