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

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.

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

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."

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what

Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.

You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

The Democrats and Republicans are the same guy admiring themself in the mirror.

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

We are the administrators of our money. We will have to give God an account of the use we make of it up to the last cent.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.