A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

I don't look where I'm going, I look where I've been.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.

Like the sun, touch someone with the warmth of your kindness.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.