I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Because minds do blow and hearts do break. Those are not just sayings. And wolves and roaches are not the only creatures that chew off their legs to get out of traps—human beings do that, too.

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.

Chronology can be dangerous. You can get so linear that it becomes robotic for the reader.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.