Whoever thought the immediate alternates with the immediate action is not an abstract painter.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.

The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

Everything that you paint may be used as evidence against you.

Only during the action is the idea of matter influenced.

The church must become a breeding ground for deliverers

It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched

For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.