“If someone is hostile in the delivery of their feedback, remember that it is an expression of their level of fear, not your level of incompetence or unlovability.”

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what’s going on?

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Carry your most important goal in your wallet.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.

When you think you can’t, revisit a previous triumph.

Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.

If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.

A couple in love is like a pair of scissors. Two useless pieces of metal, until they are inextricably connected at the core so that they can move together as one and accomplish great things.

Slow down and take the time to really see. Take a moment to see what is going on around you right now, right where you are. You may be missing something wonderful.

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

The truth is that our wellbeing is dependent on our giving love. It is not about what comes back; it is about what goes out!

Cantona’s expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

I think we have to stop using the expression “alt-right.” It’s ridiculous. It’s racist, fascist, nationalist.

Everything you do counts forever. You are an expression of the whole process of creation; you are a cocreator.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.