If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

The more you touch something, the stronger it becomes.

Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.

The fact is, art is alive. It's moving around. It's alive.

The longer they hang out, the deeper the history, the richer the life. If you use that as a template or as a way of realizing things, then I don't think you can go wrong.

If you are working, almost like with layers of the Grand Canyon, there's history within those layers.

There is the artwork that you physically make but there's also the journey that happens on the inside.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.

The painting has a life of its own

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

My favorite thing to do is watch her sleep, when she’s at total ease, not stressing about her imperfections — imperfections I find perfect.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle stricken with a dart Said when he saw the fashion of the shaft 'With our own feathers not by others' hands Are we now smitten.'

Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.

The action of giving is in a certain vibratory level, meaning giving exists in a certain plane of consciousness.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.