When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

These devices only became very popular after all of this technology was hidden behind a red button that did it all

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak they are but the instruments of the wise.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.