We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

When words remain unspoken and emotions are left unexpressed, just a glint in the eyes from otherness can inflame the mind and rouse a shower of empathy. ("Only needed a light ")

Perhaps the only way to love is to bury yourself so deeply in it that you avoid its very suffering.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.