The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.

I’m always focussed on the actual work, and I think that’s a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

Why am I covered in feathers

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.