"Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye."

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.”

Source : Friedrich Engels (2008). “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

“What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?”

“I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.”

“Trump has been very, very open and clear on what he's going to do. He's going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. He's eliminating policy on carbon and the regulatory environment on shale and energy and pipeline development. These are all things that Canada has to do and we no longer have a competitive environment to do them in. It manifests itself in the slow grind of our economy.”

“Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23

“You have to learn to hallucinate,”

“She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.”

“We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2016