All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.

You are not going to die, I know I said I'd let you, but I can't.

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.

I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.