The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.
My compulsion is to create things.
I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess.
Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.