I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

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.

The world is endlessly fascinating to those who take the time to look.

A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Everybody relates to having a dream.

I try not to define my own music. I think we are the only ones in the genre that's of our own creation.

When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

Every natural action is graceful.

I write because I'm a writer. It is rather like cooking: to make something out of the raw material at hand.

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?