Sam Messer quotes:

People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

How do you create something unknown?

In a very small way, painting addresses the 'Big Questions' to which we'll never find the answers. You do what you have to do even if it seems hopeless.

You take that leap of faith. You have to be willing to follow, blindly, wherever it takes you. If you know where you're going beforehand, you're not going to end up with anything worth knowing.