All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

It's kind of a double-edged sword for these farmers.

Technology is always a double-edged sword.

It really is a double-edged sword. If you are a manager or a candidate, you want to be there ... but if you are there, you are dodging bullets instead of shooting bullets. And sometimes somebody draws blood and you are in trouble.

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.