Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

One thing you cannot avoid ever in life, and that is time.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

MF Doom is like so out-of-the-box and just crazy…

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

And the more you love someone, the safer it is to be mad at them. Love can handle mad, no problem.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.

I have two children. I have a Down syndrome child whom I love very much, and my wife that I love.

Players don't really ask for much or want much. But the things that they do need are important.