If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

When you live life with him or without him, that is when he will accept and value you for who you are.