Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Close your eyes. Meditate on your love. This is God.

So much of life isn’t about having the right answer it’s about knowing the right question.

Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

Things are different from what I thought. They're much worse.

We should show Washington how we do it in North Dakota. I'm running to stop the over-regulating of our economy and start growing it.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

I am actually for the first time looking forward to a litigation.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure