“A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’”

Land really is the best art.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Most people in America think Art is a man’s name.

The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I really do live for the future, because when I’m eating a box of candy, I can’t wait to taste the last piece.

Remember, they’ve never seen you before in their life.

Romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Kiss me with your eyes.

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is.

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That’s who I was when I came into this world and who I’ll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain’t in the same lane.

Surround yourself with love, not friends.

In place of practising wholesome self-abnegation, we ever make the wish the father to the thought: we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I’ve learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It’s a little dangerous.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.