I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it. " I hate that type of stuff.
Painting is the subject of painting.
The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed. . . Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.
The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.
I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.
The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.
There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.
Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.