Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

You got it all wrong in your way of thinking.

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.