The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

We become intoxicated with color, with words that speak of color, and with the sun that makes colors brighter.

Colors were dynamite for us.

It was the era of photography. This may have influenced us, and played a part in our reaction against anything resembling a snapshot of life. (On the year 1905)

Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

I'd like to study the drawings of kids. That's where the truth is, without a doubt.

The substance of painting is light.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

Beyond everything else, that's one of the things that kept us going, that keeps me going, you know, the eternal love, knowing that I am in the love of the all and all love is in me.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.