A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

When God wants to give you a miracle, He first gives you a problem.

How do you minimize the awkwardness in that moment? What are some of the conversations starters you've used to open, encourage, and support enjoyable and beneficial conversations?

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.