But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

I trade with you my mind.

Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .

Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.

When I see you smile, I feel a volcano of lovely eruptions happening within my heart!

Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the Universe. Painting for me is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

I've got to show life as I see it.