I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

The walls around us bear witness to lives past and present.

My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting.

When I was young I was constantly reading walls; I took in everything written on walls, from love messages to political messages. It was my hobby and became my art.

If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.

Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

You cannot go with God and stay where you are.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions