We laugh, that we may not cry.
It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.
Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.
I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings. . . And then finally, they leap, they take off. . . they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'
I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.
We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned. . . why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.
I made this movie for $40,000, which was this little black-and-white horror film called Dementia 13, which we made in about nine days.
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties.
It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.
Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.