I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.