I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Life’s unpredictable patterns had a strange way of forming a connected web.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Inflation is repudiation.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, ...Only shooting stars break the mold.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

I am different. Let this not upset you

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.