Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

Women come in all shapes and sizes, and we are what we want to be, not the label that is placed on us.

That's an interesting thing about an object. One object speaks volumes about the company that produced it and its values and priorities.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.