Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Life is your biggest Treasure. Enjoy it. If you forget to, it will soon be gone, never to return.

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.