Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.

If I can give you all of these real answers to the questions you assumed were big unanswerable ones, imagine the depth of the new set of questions awaiting on the other side of resolution.

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Great powers must be forever vigilant and never subordinate survival to any other goal, including prosperity.

I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself.

I came from stage in high school, and on stage you kind of overdo with putting on a character a little bit. Sometimes you become a character and sometimes the character becomes you.