Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.
That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. . . . That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face. ' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand. " -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.
Ann Romney. . . looked to me like a corporate wife. The stories she told about struggles - eh! It's hard for me to believe. I mean, she's a very rich woman, and I know that, and America knows that.
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U. S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.