Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.