People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

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.

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

Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day

Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.

Do not make mistakes about character. Better be cheated in the price than in the quality of goods.

The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .