I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

The only way for mankind to survive is for religion to die.

Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

Peace will be victorious.