Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

Hold onto the wings of angels that pass your way. They fly higher than any army that has none.

The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us or the pain against which it can protect us.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.