It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us towards the ultimate reality.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

Lets build a happy little cloud.Lets build some happy little trees.

When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons

Just throw it all and live like there's no tomorrow.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

I've always been very tied to language.

I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

We're just a metal band. Whenever people ask me what kind of music we play, I always say metal.

When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.