You instinctively like what you can't do.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

Honesty is love but deception is hatred.

Every story is informed by a worldview.

Unwanted honking not only irritates others, but may also end up causing accidents. Drivers lose cool and it may result in road rage.

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.

There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'

COOPERATION means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others

I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.