Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.

Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.

If you have any of these qualities... love, kindness, compassion, sincerity and truth in your heart.... you will always find your way home.

I like butter and the people who like butter.