Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

You have to make your wedding day all about you.

Distrust interested advice.

When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

People help each other through a crisis by each supposing that the other can handle it better than he himself can.

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

I lack routine with yoga, sleep, and food but do my best to keep consistency amongst the chaos.

Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.