My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.
There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in. . . I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.