Always keep your best work.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.

The less inhibited you are the better.

There is no one just like you, and there never will be anyone just like you, so there's no reason not to be original.

If you paint from 35mm Kodachrome, you end up with a 4x5 foot Kodachrome!

Practice like good musician; draw every day.

All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.

Most important... develop your technical ability. You are handicapped if you do not develop well enough to hold the subconscious process so as not to have problems of inexperienced painters.

Never become an artist if you can't learn to draw.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

You are what you believe.

Your words to yourself and to others should uplift, never tear down.

Keep the body's energy frequencies high by always thinking positively.

Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment.

I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.

Now the Earth with many flowers puts on her spring embroidery

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.