Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.