Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting.

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

I firmly believe in marriage. It's a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you're thinking about divorce. You shouldn't get married.

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.