Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Walk in truth. Leave footprints of honesty.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.

But 'tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new reformation.

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

We do not need committees but we need commitment. The nation is already reeling under the burden of several committees formed in the last decade.