You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.
History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.
Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.
An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.
Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white. . . it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.
If you are happy, you are a geezer.
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
The elegance of the Italian South is a very strong elegance and it is one that I bring. It is a sexy elegance - or at least, let's say less chaste.
Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
I can't stop watching 'Pan Am. ' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.