Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

All artists are protected by copyright... and we should be the first to respect copyright.

It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet.

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

Love me for who I am, not what you want me to be.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good! I'm starting to learn guitar.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves?

He has absolutely no judicial supervision of all of this [ invasions of privacy ]. So all in all, [Barack] Obama is a disaster.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

I went to look for a used car and found my wife's dress in the back seat.