I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.

I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.

Life is wonderful so love deeply. Life is short so live it intensely.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.

I've never been attracted to women sexually and I wanted romance.

It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.

We'll go through the legislative process and I'm make it clear what I support, don't support and what I think is good for Arkansas.