I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.

The knowledge, which makes you ‘emotional’, is worldly awareness. True awareness does not make you ‘emotional’.

Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.

Many humans make the mistake of fighting for race when it’s the species driving our genes. And there is only one weapon to fight for species: the brain.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate.

There's a part of me that wishes I had gone to school and gotten a business degree, because I almost wonder if that wouldn't be more helpful than my theater degree, in some ways.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.