Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

When we bring it all back to 'Just Jesus' it is amazing how much grace God can work in and through our lives.

When Chuck Norris calls 911 it's to ask if everything is ok.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

As we give, we find that sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven, and in the end, we learn that it was no sacrifice at all.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.