With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Painting is the subject of painting.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Enemies strike at weak points.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

I had the feeling of being crushed under a rock till I could see only one crack of light, and that was the love of God.

The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

in show business there's not much point in asking yourself if someone really likes you or if he just thinks you can be useful to him, because there's no difference.

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.