You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.

Walking together and exchanging kisses.Holding hands like we're Mr. and Mrs.

There is so much life underneath the water that we dont know about.

These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They just leave that to religions to divert people off into rigid belief systems.

Planning to write is not writing.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes.

I can't please everyone. I am trying not to let the pressure consume me.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.