I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. Furthermore, I just need to trust where it leads.

— Teresa R. Funke

Let's make room for the kind of art that challenges us, pushes boundaries, stirs and inspires, and takes our breath away with its uniqueness. Let's reconnect with our artist souls and trust that if we make good art, we'll make good money.

— Teresa R. Funke

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

— Teresa R. Funke

One day this war will end. And when it does, Rule Lake will be just a memory.

— Teresa R. Funke

Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups.

— Teresa R. Funke

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

— Teresa R. Funke

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

— Teresa R. Funke

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

— Teresa R. Funke

The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry about my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.

— Teresa R. Funke

This is how hatred begins -- with a muffled laugh on a hot night and a knock on the door.

— Teresa R. Funke