Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.

To an artist, a picture is both a sum of ideas and a blurry memory of 'pushing paint,' breathing fumes, dripping oils and wiping brushes, smearing and diluting and mixing.

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.

Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.

Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

It is as if only irrelevance can be promoted as art.

The range in brightness from the purple glow [of the sunset] to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures.

L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

And what exactly do you think this proves?" he spits. "You've got power, but you don't know what to do wit

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay

If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Sometimes you have to be uncomfortable.

In the long run, a short cut seldom is.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.