If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

You can either buy shoes or paint.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

Senses disabled by fear.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Every day there is something new you are working on. It is a challenge every day and that is what makes this game so great.

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

And more importantly - what we have chosen to do

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

Morons. I've got morons on my team.