It was a counter-attack and I had to take him down. I don't regret it and I would do it again if I had to.
If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.
I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions. "
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.
I remember seeing a photograph of myself en pointe with my hand over my head and the other hand turned in under my breast curtseying. I took dance lessons at Miss Debbie's Dance Studio, and she put this picture of me in the storefront window. I was so unbelievably humiliated by the sight of myself.
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.
We go wherever God leads whenever God moves us. . . because we love His glory more than we love our lives.
You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.
Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin