It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.

If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling

The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

Do something that scares you everyday.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.