Each painting evolves freely and independently.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Only now I'm learning to enjoy not being in charge of what the next stroke will do to the whole painting. I'm still learning that there are no mistakes, only discoveries.

When you fall for your appetite too early, you may not be able to endure to the end.

Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

A million years went by quick.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.