The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Once you’ve read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.

Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone.

Go with your gut, but use your head.

In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.