“It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.”

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.”

“I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my way of being and thinking.”

“My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.”

“Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end its all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should hav...”

“Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”