Mine. He was mine, and not even death would take him from me—not if I could help it.
I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.
For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.
There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
My most frequent admonition to athletes and coaches is: train, do not strain.
I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!