Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

If you cannot find yourself on the page very early in life, you will go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.

A warm dead photograph is much livelier than a living cold reality!

You may think you will never get caught for your wrongdoing, but be assured that you will be imprisoned by your wrongdoing.

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Before people deal with their own sin, they are always dealing with other people's sin.

You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.