Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

why we fear death... life is more scary.....

God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to have.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.

I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on Glee anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse

I don't like doing [things] as myself...I like to be made into someone else.

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.