If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you fought and won your inner battle against fears and restrictions

Beauty of heaven and earth resides in our heart and it is the joyful reflection of the soul.

It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?

It's better to die than to never really have lived.