Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well

Doubt is an acceptable risk for happiness.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

I thank God that I wasn't born perfect.

I Don't Care About FIFA. This is bullshit.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

Love is the law of life.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.