I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Good is equal to Order While, Evil is equal to FreedomDoes it make sense to you? It does for me.

Try not to be a person of faith without work or work without faith.

How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Writing and reading and speaking with specificity and skill has never seen more important to me than it does at this moment. It's what's between us and chaos.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women’s capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy.