I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

May God fill you with much joy and peace of mind.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's dream.

But men are less used to the idea of being raped than women are, and it strikes them with a fresh horror. With women, that horror comes right along with the female genitals.

I love to collect modern art.

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.