Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition--about what we can endure, dream, fail at and survive.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I made so many recordings with junky mics and crappy mixing consoles, you have to use what your tools are and in some ways that's been inspirational.

I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.