The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

No amount of love from the outside can make up for the lack of self-love in one's heart.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.

The aim of art is to create space.

We're thanking God. Without him, we wouldn't have made it.

You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.

I'm just terrible. At talking. With words.

I think N.Y.C. definitely had something to do with my figuring out my life path.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.