I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

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

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.

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.

If it meant brighter stars, she would follow God into the darkness.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Your truth isn't everybody else's truth.

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.