Everybody dies. Some just need a little help.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Not all things can be expressed through words, not all the words reflect the truth.

Set goals, pursue them, achieve them, and then surpass them.

Fearing the wind that causes the shaking branch directs you to where energy is needed for improving your life.

I heard the little bird say so.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

It's empowering to be asked to look at what's possible, not told how to do it.

I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please.

White people on Facebook, I discovered by reading people's messages and walls, tended to lurk and judge.

What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature?

In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.