Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.