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

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 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.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.

I am proud of my kids, but I also want to make my mom proud of me. I'm still a momma's girl at the heart of the situation.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

If airline seat cushions are such great flotation devices, why don't you ever see anyone take one to the beach?

It's not about celebrity or not. It's all about, do you have that 'girl in a cardigan' in you. You gotta have that.

I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys.

You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'

Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.