I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Say you want to live life like a movie.Keep in mind there’s a running time.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?

God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced

I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

You have to have a hell of a lot of confidence in what you're doing.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

There's really kind of nobody we can trust.

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had