“If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.”

“Had I known then what I know now, I would have clung to him. I would have looked him in the eyes to see that spark of mischief, that undying intelligence that belied his gruff exterior. If I'd known the inevitable, I would have said everything I felt in my heart and soul. I would have told him thank you for being my father. I would have said that if I'm ever going to be a good man, it's going to be because of the way he'd raised me... ...I would have told him I loved him. But I didn't. I didn't because I didn't know. I didn't even say goodnight. Or goodbye.”

“I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.- Tiffany”

“I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.”

“My mother didn’t raise no fool.She raised a chicken.”

“I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.”