I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.
People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.
My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.
Works of art are landscapes of the mind.
A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.
Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
My real mantra for my life is "empower others".