If I am darkness, then I have learned it backwards. Darkness must be in the right, and you my dear, along with nearly all others, have been blindly wandering within the light of the wrong.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

I'm a true native of the Bay Area.

This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude.

Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.