We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

Until your last breath, you may not be able to see the true beauty of life.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.