If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

If we want to see real change in our world, it begins with us all on an individual basis.

Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

Your joy lies within you.

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.

Sympathy is towards someone else, versus empathy, which is feeling like someone else.

Expect the Best, Expect Divine Guidance, Expect your Fortunes to Change, Expect a Miracle!

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem