Art should create an experience.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

Your outer charm and beauty attract me. Your inner beauty of kindness and a caring heart seduces me.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

I think it's just too much trouble to be dishonest and keep up with yourself.

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.