An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I will always be at the lake house every night, waiting until dawn.”-Abanir to Sophia

I find something new in the Bible every time I read it . . . that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God’s truth.

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

I don't like when people pay for me.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I am surprising myself [at] each show, and the delivered piano often surprises me. Sometimes the piano is so old that I don't have to prepare it, and sometimes I have a concert grand!

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.