Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?

The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to rise in the morning!

Love, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness are the secrets of all peace and happiness.

The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates.

From beginning to end, we are all alone.

I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

The world isn't awful. People aren't awful. They want to be good. Something makes them bad. Something breaks them down, makes them snap.

You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.