Painting is still to a great extent dominated by a central image; corners in most cases are like uninvited guests at a party, uneasy and unattended.

I don't believe anyone really likes paint, unless he's tempted to eat it.

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

With love I draw what I hate.

I make up a set of rules and play within those rules until I win.

I am interested in doing something that cannot be explained.

When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

The U.S. news media have a critical role to play in educating the public about climate change.

I'll take my iPod - though I'm not very good with gadgets to be honest - and that has everything I like.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.