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

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.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Most of us only dream, some of us go and get their dreams. Dreamers know failure; dreamers in action know victory.

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

I was dreaming of Craig Carton.

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

Every living soul among the Latter-day Saints that fasts two meals once a month will be benefited spiritually and be built up in the faith of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ - benefited spiritually in a wonderful way - and sufficient means will be in the hands of the bishops to take care of all the poor.

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

Siblings that say they never fight are most definitely hiding something

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

I cant bear the silent ringing in my skull.

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news, glad tidings, and much more. It is the message of salvation as repeatedly announced by Jesus Christ and His apostles and prophets. It is my firm belief that all truth and light originating with God is embraced in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.