There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

This advice from a college freshman carrying a cane?""It's a walking stick, I'll have you know.""Same difference.""Hardly. It's fashion.

There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.