If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That's just crazy.

If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.