Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.

You have to put your own oxygen mask before you put on others... It's a good metaphor for parenting

Taking good pictures is easy. Making very good pictures is difficult. Making great pictures is almost impossible

... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

Business schools don't create successful people. They simply accept them, then take credit for their success.

You can see my guns at my apartment. The safe room is a special place... It's good to have a safe room in your house. It's storm-proof; we've got food, store supplies, all kinds of stuff.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.