I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

For every bad moment I've had, there have been 25 positives.

No senator's vote, except for the declaration of war or the authorization for the use of force, is more important than the confirmation of a nominee for the Supreme Court for a lifetime appointment.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

Positions are just a social construct that mean nothing to the enlightened man.

The Electoral College is justified and right.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.