"I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will."

"When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing."

"What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought."

"I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see."

"To build a legacy, one must accept that shadows are only cast by the presence of light."

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy."

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."