My paintings are wiser than I am.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

To demonstrate the nature of one who would enter the kingdom is to use an illustration

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

You think you're an artist; prove it

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

After an exhilarating whitewater ride through America's love-hate relationship with its rivers, Daniel McCool leaves us inspired and hopeful for a happy ending.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.