If you can't paint, paint Big.

What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Art is a protest against death.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me... and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

You get no points for style when it comes to putting. It's getting the ball to drop into the cup that counts.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

Failures teach you. Success makes you arrogant