It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a voice simultaneously recognizable and foreign.

Painting is an investigation of being.

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.

It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.