It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and gra….

The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my ene….

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canv….

The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies. But I had r….

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick….

How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over t….

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember..

I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and materi….

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked..

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land eas….

It's really hard to have a fair discussion when you're faced with militarism, aggression, and greed. The militarists do not want dialogue. They want ….

We don't necessarily need so many artists. I recommend that many of the people who think they want to be artists should go into the American Friends ….

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love..

I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a c….

My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf in 1960, but t….

I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity a….

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being..