The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

Harmony and Peace do not rise from any church, temple, mosque or synagogue. They can only rise from individual human conscience.

There are boneswaiting for names in the graveyards.Even the sun above us is dying, onelanded repetition of light at a time.

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

Playing Juliet in Heavenly Creatures changed my life, and the role of Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opened many new doors creatively.

We need to have strong allies. Our association and connection with our allies is essential to America's strength. We're the great nation that has allies, 42 allies and friends around the world.

Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.