We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

We were born as a free soul. We only become enslaved in the world.

We can lift the soul to the heavens with daily dance.

With love you could persuade a Pathan to go to Hell, but by force you couldn't even take him to Heaven.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.

The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.

I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.