Death is a mercy, and I have enough mercy to go around.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

I am so thankful for God’s mercy, grace, and patience for all the times I fell into sin. I am so grateful that He never stopped chasing me no matter how far I fell.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on.

For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

(Rush are) like the JD Salinger of Canadian Prog Rock

I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.