A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.

Customer will create most value for you at point he thinks you're creating most value for him.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Mind your own business.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

Hair is just one way of expressing ourselves. We express ourselves through how we dress or through tattoos or body art or piercings or cosmetic surgery.

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.