Color is an intense experience on its own.

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

I didn’t want to cry in front of you.”He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. in front of me.

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

Those who pretend as if they don't love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

I do so many things. Like when I was younger, if I drove past a house that I didn't want to live in, I'd hold my breath. Driving around somewhere like Slough I'd go blue in the face.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.