My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation.

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 every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!

I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.

In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

When thoughts tell you it’s too late, dismiss them. You haven’t dreamed your best dream. You haven’t run your best race.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.