I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Nothing matches a Sailor’s kiss coming back home where he belongs.

He seemed determines, his resolve unwavering. This would take tact. Prudence. Possible Milk Duds.

It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts.

You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.

On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.