I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

When you're not a mom, you can get up in the middle of the night, paint, sleep all morning... you can't do that when you have two children!

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

The spirit is the mirror

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

Christ said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' Learn the ways to seek which will expedite your journey and make it more fun.

There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.