Kelly closed his eyes and began to bargain with God.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Damn straight" said Connor. " So yeah, I look at you and I could suck start a leaf blower, or drill a Kevin-shaped body hole into the wall, like a cartoon.

I didn't despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn't allow anyone to make me feel bad about that. That was a line I could draw in the sand.

To love you fully is to love you in every way possible, even in the smallest, most inconspicuous ways that will eventually all lead back to you.

Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.

A happy soul in a happy body.

We all need to believe in something, a dream that gives us optimism and faith.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

Hope for the best and work for it.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has had a reverberation right around the world and back.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.