I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The Creator power is in you. Let your awesomeness glow.

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors...

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling."

I'm not going for the sixteenth chapel.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.