People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

To be as pure and perfect as a flower, you must think and dream like a flower.

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

God wants to light your way.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Being on the edge isn't as safe, but the view is better

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them