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.

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.

Art should create an experience.

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.

I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too.

God bless our journey on earth.

Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

...intimacy isn't something men talk about. They may talk about politics, literature, stocks, or sports, depending on the man, but about their love lives they keep silent, even to their dying breath.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

Oh, Will Henry. After all we have been through, how could I send you away now, at our most critical hour? You are indispensable to me.

But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.