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.

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.

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.

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.

I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.

You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart!

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

I am the guardian of power, not its owner.

You cant get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.