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

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.

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.

Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.

The body is the easiest thing to adjust to... It’s the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

We can cure the disease of intolerance. We must do it if the world is to survive. No us. No them. Just we.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.

Get smart and nothing can touch you.