It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

The greatest education is the knowledge of God.

Action speaks louder than word but if someone judged you by your tattoos that means they are STUPID not to understand art and missed the meaning of "for art sakes

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

When we become overly concerned about our appearance, our spiritual reputation, our coolness, and our acceptance, we are living as citizens of this world rather than as ambassadors.

Superman can fly high way up in the sky 'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.

here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.