I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

The courage to live brings its own rewards.

It is simpler and easier to flatter men than to praise them.

I think everyone should learn how to code.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.

Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Now that I'm famous, guys don't hit on me.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.