There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

You can either buy shoes or paint.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

Snape's patronus was a doe, ' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not What a lovely sermon but I will do something!

I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

The poet is he who fights on the passionate Side and whoever loses he wins; when he Is defeated it is hard to say who wins.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.

One key ingredient to successful technology integration is not forgetting the autonomy and the fun.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and of the family you were born into.