A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate.

The landscapes were in my arms as I did it.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

The question of sex will take care of itself.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

Every canvas is a journey all its own.

And while acknowledging the darkest and heaviest times we experience is important, we still need to spin the moment, paint it a different color, and transform it because positivity saves lives.

Women see me as a figure they can respect. They know I've been through a lot. I'm not going to let no man put me under.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

People expect you to be this weird cartoon sometimes when you're a musician. I hate that. I hate standing out. I hate people looking at me. I just want to be part of the crowd.

By changing your thoughts to focus on what positive outcomes you desire and asking yourself how can you achieve that, you're able to move forward.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Temper justice with mercy.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

Success is like scaling Everest. It is important that before you chase mountain, you sketch the Everest of your dreams.

I'm not going to make general comments about the British press.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

Life works better when we go with the flow rather than fight the current.

Greatness is a life mission, being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others.

I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.