There's art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn't get under my skin like it used to.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

If you have been told that you are late and unreliable more than once, then not only do you lack punctuality, but you also lack decency and seriousness, which is certainly very annoying.

Two things make smart men stupid, beautiful women and sports

With every literary genre or form come some conventional expectations that the biblical authors either follow or deviate from.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.