When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

when you pass beyond the point of no return, you will come back a different person..عندما تتجاوز ماوراء نقطة اللاعودة سوف تعود شخصا مختلفا

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.