My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

My work is about your seeing. There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light -- it is the record of seeing. My material is light, and it is responsive to your seeing.

Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Life I love you, all is groovy.