If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.

I like movies about failing.

A thug is what I want and a thug is what I need. And my friends don't understand, and I think it's jealousy.

In the vast game of Darwinian musical chairs, whenever the music stopped there were large numbers of people without a seat—and some smartass had sold them guns.

It's more paine to doe nothing then something.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

In the killing of animals there is cruelty, rage, and the accustoming of oneself to the bad habit of shedding innocent blood.