When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

When things run out of control it is because we failed to control how reality plays out. How you manage and control your reality will come to determine your life.

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most.

God loveth a cheerful giver.

No man can teach another self-knowledge. He can only lead him or her up to self-discovery - the source of truth.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

You can't fulfill all the expectations of everyone you know, so you might as well go ahead & disappoint them & get it over with.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.