“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.”

“You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.”

“A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.”

“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.”

“Faith is the quiet assurance that everything will be okay.”

“Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.”