True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist

The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.

But whenever I say that I will do this or that, it looks very different when the time comes.

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

I wouldn't keep him around long if I didn't feed him well.

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'

It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?