Art is the highest form of hope.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

You never know whose tough day you will brighten with a few kind words. Tweet your positivity today!

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

I've never minded it," he went on. "Being lost, that is. I had always thought one could not truly be lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.