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.

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.

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.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

dear kiara, The women in the shop told me that yellow rose represents friendship and red rose shows love. And the rosery is the only thing i own that i care for, its yours i'm yours C

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Are you going to pull those pistols or whistle Dixie?

There are people who say they can , others they can not . In general, they are all right .

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

Messi is much more than being clever. He is a genius who reserves all his expressiveness for football.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

Courage, my friend, it's not too late to make the world a better place.