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.

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

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When your faith leads the way, you will locate the source of your hidden treasures.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

This was what happiness felt like - this wondrous, miraculous alternative to dread.

Tomorrow contains more joy than any yesterday you recall.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.