The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Painting is the subject of painting.

Be sure that whatever you are is you.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Dedicate one's life to truth.

When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

You can't have unity without diversity.

When Alan Rickman, a dear friend of mine, played villains, he always made it complicated. He didn't redeem what they did, but he made you feel that it was hard for them to be so horrible.