“O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed. ', , .[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]”

“Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech”

“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 best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”