Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

I have no trouble sleeping.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn’t even nothing or once.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.