I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

I don't look where I'm going, I look where I've been.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

It was then that I realized. There are a thousand ways to break a girl...but it only takes one to kill her. -Alyssa 'Blame It on the Pain

The problem of finding a collection of “wise” men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy.

There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.

Failures is simply a way to your success.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

And so now you think society is to blame for the mess you made of yourself?

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

It's more important to grow your income than cut your expenses. It's more important to grow your spirit that cut your dreams.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.