I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

If the past could be changed, it would not exist. If the future could be stopped, it would not survive. If the present could be avoided, it would not prevail.

Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

We make ourselves up as we go.

Baby, baby, don't get hooked on me, cause I'll just use you then I'll set you free.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

you have the right to live a beautiful life