If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

You have to risk your heart to find love. It’s the price we pay for a chance at bliss.

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

You should have a value system. You can win if you stick with your value system.

John McDonnell is the Bear Bryant of track and field.

Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918