Every painting I do blends time frames. The great thing about being an artist is I can make the past join the present in some reality of the future.

A still image attracts the viewer with an overall impact, then reveals smaller details upon further study.

A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.

Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.

I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.