I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

Whether you have teeth or not, smile! Because our world always needs a smile!

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

True change takes place in the imagination.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

I went to a record store, they said they specialized in hard-to-find records. Nothing was alphabetized!

Filipino pride. I'm so excited, I'm just sending love to the Philippines. I know they've had a tough year and I just send out my feelings to them.