Be of good cheer, miracles do happen.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.

Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Tell the viewer something that they need to know.

Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension... additive/subtractive.

Get rid of your little darlings.

When in doubt, make a red painting.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal.

I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!