In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

My parents told me to marry for money, ' said her husband. 'But I chose the love of a strong woman.''And look what trouble I turned out to be, ' she said.

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

I really started to get into reading the Bible and I started to look for a church to go to. Every Sunday I was going to like three or four churches, I was just looking for the right church.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

We belong to God. All in us is His.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

It is iniquitous, unjust, and most impolitic to persecute for religion's sake. It is against natural religion, revealed religion, and sound policy.