Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

She’d offered him her friendship. Her body. And he’d taken both. He wanted to keep them both. And he also wanted more, so much more. He wanted her heart, like she had his.

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.

One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up

Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.