Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

Life is simply beautiful and too short to shed tears for something which was never yours. It was time to move on.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.

Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.