I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.

I read like the flame reads the wood.

Truth has beauty power and necessity.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

You never really know the guy until you sit down with him.

The cookbooks I value the most in my collection are the ones where you hear the author's voice and point-of-view in every recipe.

All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.