It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.
It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry. ' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you. '
I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.
Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?