To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

All cats are gray in the dark.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.