Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

So long as the UK continues to maintain its own identity, it is my belief that the US and the UK should maintain close relations.

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.

I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

The reason I haven't been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven't had one decent coherent thought to put down.

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.