When you retire for the night offer grateful homage to God for being with you all day long.
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
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.
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.
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
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.
I'd rather risk an ugly surprise than rely on things I know I can do.
The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. . . . This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.
We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.
By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.