An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Strategize yearly, plan quarterly, examine monthly, reflect weekly, act daily, and live #intentionally.

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

What no one really talks about, though, is the main reason many of us fail with our weight loss efforts: our minds won't let us.

They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams!

The Clean Power Plan is a bold step not just in lowering carbon emissions, but also in creating the clean energy jobs of the future.

Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and again.

A tear that runs down a believer's cheek is more beneficial than a thousand raindrops on the earth

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.

Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.