The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once.

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at.

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

A person who is obsessed is characterized by committed, settled, passionate love for God, above and before every other thing and every other being.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.

I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

We must dare to invent the future