Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

Painting is a form of incarnation. It is spirit made manifest in the world.

I find myself moved by man in his new violent environment. I want to paint this explicitly and beautifully.

I feel it's just some sort of game if it's just abstract.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.

You are what you think, not what others think of you.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Rectory always sounded to me like a place where you would find a proctologist.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

Be, in this immensity of night, the magic force at your sense's crossroad.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.