Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

Art should create an experience.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

If you relax your mind, it can begin working for you.

People wonder when you're allowed to call yourself a writer. I think maybe the answer is when you recognize that is work." - Nina MacLaughlin, 'With Compliments

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven

As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Yeah, I definitely want to find that right person and fall in love and have kids someday.