First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

If you can't paint, paint Big.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Art is a protest against death.

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.

She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.

When the lights suddenly go out, hold onto your diamonds for dear life. - Nancy Drew, The Mystery of Lilac Inn

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

I never dreamed I would do Westerns.

There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

The good thing about love is nobody can stop you from loving them.

I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

I was loud and electric at night, got all shook up with Elvis.