Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.