The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with.

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

It's as clear as the balls on a tall dog.

Nothing makes sense, why should I?

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.