If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

Much like a patchwork quilt, inspiration that stirs and motivates me is made of many things.

Subject matter does not determine a successful painting. It is the manner in which one personally envisions and interprets the subject that is the magical equation.

I firmly believe that a representational painting is only as strong as its abstract components.

The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.

We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.

Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.

If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.