"Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase."

“My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.”

“If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.”

“Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'”

Source : Sue Halpern (2011). “Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly”, p.121, Vintage

“If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and, in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last.”

“Harder he works, the luckier he gets.”

“I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.”

“The only way I thought I could do a greatest hits album is to do it in a prison where they have no f**king idea who I am. I'd do what I consider the best of those old, early CDs before I did DVDs. A women's prison would be even better, but it has to be English-speaking.”

“I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.”