To be against what is new is not to be modern. Not to be modern is to write yourself out of the scene. Not to be in the scene is to be nowhere. — Tom Wolfe, in The Painted Word.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the...

From time to time it comes to me that I've got something to say. I'm not out there trying to be David Suzuki in acrylic [though] you know I do often talk that way. But there are a number of paintings I think the most important, one of the most...