If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.

You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

Paint faster than you can think.

What's in front of me is what's most interesting.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Friendship is far more delicate than love.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.

Life begins when we decide it's going to begin for us.

When a nice girl overcompensates, her behavior says, “What I have to offer isn’t enough, and who I am isn’t enough.

I was perfect- not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.