Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

When someone says "just saying" what they really mean is, "You would be a colossal idiot to not take my advice." (on Facebook)

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home.

Separation isnt time or distance its the bridge between us finer than silk thread sharper than swords

It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.