I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

Art should create an experience.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.

How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.

Sometimes d worst that happens to u produce d best in you

I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

Never be paralyzed by fear, just by falling off a cliff

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

Mercy will we overcome thisOh one by one could we turn it aroundMaybe carry on just a little bit longerAnd I try to give you what you need

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.