The paint is something we need to defend.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

I can paint in jail.

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

When I retired, I stopped playing because of my body, so much pain and injuries.

I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.

It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.

When I ruptured my spleen, I was about to win the overall Series for the World Tour, and I was at the last event in Vermont for the U.S. Open and was having a great day. Then I just got a little too excited and just face-planted, and I knew something was wrong. I really couldn't breathe, and my whole body was in so much pain.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

I never saw a painting that would not be improved by the addition of tropical fish.

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.