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.

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.

Painting is an investigation of being.

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.

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.

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.

My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?

The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.

Cheer up everyone," he said, a new brightness to his voice. "Since we’re all going to die horribly anyway, what’s there to be worried about?

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.