I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

Failure is a great teacher

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

I am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

Anytime you can muster the fury to actually write in the face of the impossibility of writing, that's an achievement.

I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.