I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Men. Do they all evade as first line of defense?

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers.

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

All God's Chillun got Rhythm.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

To forgive is an act of compassion, Buffy. It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.