I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

the measure of achievements in life are directly related to the acquire knowledge, not to the social recognition.

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

I'd rather talk to myself then a fella' that's mad about how right he is.

Great news! Hosting Oscars counts five hours toward my community service!

It's good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that's better than you'd imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn't be as much fun.

As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power.

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?