There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

He held up his hand, and in it was... Oh, God. The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.

Here's to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

The basis of persistence is the Power of Will.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill