Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting?

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

We're antithetical. You use your mind one way; I use mine another. I recognize what you're doing, but I can't imagine it.

things keep falling in and out of place. this is the universe's way of taking care of me.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

Mental and spiritual laws are so powerful that they can be used to multiply, neutralize, or even reverse natural laws!

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

Fear is faith in reverse gear.

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king.