When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.