If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

No boy was ever so interesting to them as when he was interesting to someone else.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace.

Lonely is the night when you find yourself alone.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

The role of art is not to express the personality but to overcome it.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.