I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet.

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.

You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.

By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

Art Objects is important not only as a plea to the public to read serious literature and to read it seriously, but it is a terrific book of instruction about writing.