If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings

If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight.