Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

I don't know what is behind the curtain

My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.