I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

Your smile is a messenger of your good will.

Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria to grow the Naira to make it value.

We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Objects of charity are not guests.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

I think more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes have been won by Jews.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.