Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion.' I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . . . Is this not form?

Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

Failure is not important, how you overcome it is.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.