I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

(Brin) 'How good is your lawyer, on a scale of Atticus Finch to Franklin and Bash?

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

How long can you keep me invisible?" "As long as were in physical contact." My throat felt dry. "Holding hands?" That's how we'd done it last time. "Unless you had something else in mind?

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.