I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

I love seeing things that work in the micro and work in the macro.

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.

I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

We're making so many images today and it's unbelievable. I shoot stuff all the time. I try to figure a lot out before I paint. I do a tremendous amount of shooting.

I've always wished that I had a great ability to verbalize art theory and find a way that I fit in to the whole lineage, but I don't have a clue.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

I'm a painter, I'm an artist. I take things too far sometimes. I really need some comfort.

I wanted to finally feel better about understanding. I painted my wife because I wanted to understand her. I can talk to her, but I didn't understand why I was so compelled.

It is that little bit of extra attention that makes all the difference.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

What you can't comprehend within your thoughts will be impossible to make real within your world.

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

This is unparalyzed in the state's history.

Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.