How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

It's lonely up in the top

Most women had the one thing in common: they had great pain when they gave birth to their children. This should make a bond that held them all together

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Sometimes you've to be clever than a coyote to out wit the devil.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I'd lie for you and that's the truth.

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.