I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.

Describe plum-blossoms?Better than my verses...whiteWordless Butterflies

I have what it takes to get the work done.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

It can't hurt to have a backup.

The payoff of a human venture is, in general, inversely proportional to what it is expected to be.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.