Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Don’t beat yourself up, son. I’m sure there is a culture on this spinning ball of dirt where you can be pretty. If not, do rock ‘n roll, or practice words. That shit’s pretty as well.

Until he (Time's founder Henry Luce) arrived, news was crime and politics.

We need to consciously remember that we have an unprecedented responsibility to protect the planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

Get your customers involved in your business. Make them your partners and they'll never leave you.

Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.