One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

Art should create an experience.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.