The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

An arch never sleeps.

Life is but thought.

Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.

The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse.