When I paint figures it's never the idea of painting the beauty of the figure, it is using the figure to get across how I feel.

I love the figure to get across what I feel.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he’ll swim.Throw a champion into the pit, and he’ll climb.Throw him off a cliff, and he’ll grow wings.Throw him into a furnace, and he’ll become gold.

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

Small businesses are important, but so are tiny businesses.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

In 2012, African-Americans were 13 percent of the electorate, and 93 percent of them voted for [Barack] Obama.

To hearts which near each other move From evening close to morning light,The night is good; because, my love,They never say good-night.

We don't have rights until we claim them.

Riding in another drop, ain't talking Enterprise They try to see me, get diabetes from humble pie