All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

You make the world a better place by making daily improvements to become the best version of yourself.

Feels so good to be quoted

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

I like a round nail and not too long. I like to have control of what I do with my hands. I don't want hands longer than my legs.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?