You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

Use what you've been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!

Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system

In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.

Words are less important to me than deeds.

The epicenter of creativity and imagination should be the Church, reflecting the character and glory of God.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am.

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.