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.

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 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.

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

‎"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

The scientist is more religious than the poet because his beliefs rests in the faith of a reality that is intangible.

Good teams don't care about who scores. Good teams just care about scoring; they don't care who does it.

I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.