Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

Selling is not a static activity.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?

And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

I had to trick people into giving me money for my first film. Making a romantic comedy is easier and more expected from a woman than it is to make a drama about a Japanese warrior.

The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.

If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry.