A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

How could people not believe in magic when the whole world is made of it?

Yes, " he replied. "We are --- how do you say on Midgard -- between a hard place and tree.

The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

I just want to make music on the drums.

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.