I want painting to be my flashlight.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

Painting is an investigation of being.

It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

A cord that remains, always. in many ways...

I believe in order that I may understand.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

The dangerous falls were the ones that happened so fast you didn't have time to react

Four Very Powerful Words to say to your child: I Believe in you!

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!