When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

Love with your heart not with your mind, mind is judgmental but heart is kind.

Ever since her being turned into a Churchill, she has out-Churchill'd them all in high and mighty claims.

I told you. . .you belong in a castle.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

I have a belief: What belongs to you, comes to you.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It's an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.