I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

When you Dream, let your Dream be compelling enough to pull you towards its realization

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

If American Idol was the Olympics, I'd still get a medal. It was a great race.

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.