Painting several comparative images is a profitable way to begin to understand the concept of content.

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as clear and understandable as possible.

Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.

Content is the meaningful substance of the work.

Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth—the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

I'm always reading, and you learn a lot by reading. When I was twenty-five, I read a lot, but didn't have much reading behind me.

I still am champion in my own right.

Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

When you feel in love with an ex, it isn't that you still love him, but that you are simply stuck in the idea of what YOU did wrong.