What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

Perhaps we are given a mom that we might take into death the memory of a lullaby.