Painting is an investigation of being.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

all brave men love

Be thankful, joyful and prayerful.

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

One can (not) learn from a fatal error.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.