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.

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

Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is.

I never stopped grinding. I never stopped hustling. I never stopped working. I just kept moving. It has nothing to do with the money or anything like that. It's just that I love music.

To be honest, my goal is very clear. It's to have many people listen to my music. I want to confirm my existence even more by standing on a large stage.