In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The gods were there to do the duties of a megaphone, because who else would people listen to?

People want security in this insecure world.

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.