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.

I want painting to be my flashlight.

Painting is an investigation of being.

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.

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.

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will.

Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

I’m praying for a misdemeanor

Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see HIM.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

An essential part of seeing clearly is finding the willingness to look closely and to go beyond our own ideas.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

If you care about the 2012 election and value the voices of regular Americans who lost hope in their hope and change candidate, this is one documentary you won't want to miss.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's fans, or Arsenal's, or United's, we'd have won 20 Champions Leagues, hahaha!