I am very invested in the physical activity and the decision-making that is involved with making paintings - nothing else is quite like it.

I'm interested in how paintings can change or transform - sometimes through close examination or viewed from afar; or how they hold the space of a wall or interact in a room with each other.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation.

It was quite apparent that he'd been bestowed all the charms of any handsomely clad rake. A demeanor to match, Ruby thought.

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

True friends are trustworthy angels.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?