I remember looking at books when I was in high school, but I don't think I really stood in front of a genuine painting or sculpture until I was out of high school.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

Love cannot be contained, love is destined to transcend and change.

I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy.

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life.

Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ...

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

My game wasn't where it should have been at all at the start of the year. I got into a couple of bad habits on my swing, and it just took me a little bit of time to get out of them.

I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.