One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

A little of what you fancy does you good.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

The mile has all the elements of a drama.

Just keep clear mind, go straight ahead, try, try, try for ten thousand years.

I wanted to do a period piece. I wanted to be on a show that people would actually watch, that was of quality.