The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?'I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me?

Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

I was always thinking the funny things but was always quiet and scared to be made fun of.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.