Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

Matter. noun: what we’re made of

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.

Divine mind is the one and only reality.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.

I'm never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.

As long as I love Beauty I am young.

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.