"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."

“It was probably very difficult to go from Chinese and then suddenly go to kindergarten and start speaking English; it's very hard to transition back and forth when you are in that pivotal age. It's also hard to transition back, but if I was immersed in the country for a given amount of time, you are surrounded by it, everyone is speaking, you are learning new things, you are practicing all the time.”

“I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.”

“Coming into the business, you'd pass through these little agencies until you got to understand what was happening in the business, unless you were really able to have a style strong enough to go directly to the publishers.”

“The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.”

Source : Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.16, Destiny Image Publishers

“I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.”

“If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.”

“I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.”

Source : Robert Motherwell, Dore Ashton, Jack D. Flam, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1983). “Robert Motherwell”, Abbeville Pr

“What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.”