The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

If you don’t pursue purpose, you won’t know what to with your time

You can't take back the things that have been said neither the actions that have been done.

It's the rule of bird shit.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

What I need is a lawyer who specializes in the law of the jungle.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

I never thought I'd be a good influence on anybody with anything I did or said or sang.