The cross of the Cruxifixion without the cross of the Resurrection is the symbol of a mutilated Christianity.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

As usual, there was a story behind the story, and that is where the truth was hidden.

My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.