For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.

For me, painting is like meditation.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

Let joy of the Lord make you rejoice.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, " he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Ish #21 "Stop saying the only meat you eat is chicken. It's still meat!

No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans for my own life, then I could be successful.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.