We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Play the game of peace, not the war.Play, not with gun, but with laughter.

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

My deep sense of alarm has to do with Donald Trump's seeming lack of fealty to constitutionalism.

You've got to try this," I told Bones, handing him the glass. "It's like Cristal and O-Negative had a love child.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

The people are craving for a better world. Let us mobilize them as co-workers for a better world.

I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.