Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

I come from the theater and you normally have four or five weeks to prepare. For me, the fun of the job is to pull yourself into a subject that you know nothing about.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

The Super Bowl now takes on a magnitude that almost defies the imagination.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.