Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris.

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly.

When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us..

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman..

Every good painter paints what he is..

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?.

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record..

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have..

Some things just have to be believed to be seen..

I have wished you something None of the others would..

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere..

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning..

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose..

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast..

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement..

Paint what you are, paint what you believe, paint what you feel..

Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..

Like many things, I am nothing..