Language is much closer to film than painting is..

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects..

I am one of the crucified dead..

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others..

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?.

Is anything accidental?.

That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and….

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it..

Watching something is nothing like doing it..

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings..

You can't always say what you'd like to say..

There are good places to play and bad places..

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself..

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God..

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm just going to be me..

I hope we have American-topias..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

I have sworn to die painting..