It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

When you see anyone being targeted, support her or him with a positive comment or emoji.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.