Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.

Dismiss thoughts of 'good, bad, right, wrong, success, failure' - be spontaneous.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

Representational painters: place your works in a larger context. Give your work not only breadth but breath. Do not 'copy' what you see outwardly but give it 'spirit.

Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

Reconcile the loss of the painting - no matter how many times it may happen - with the joy of beginning again.

Ask yourself, 'What is obstructing my vision?' What is the difference between seeing and looking?

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare, ' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.

Legislators aren't known for being rocket scientists.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.