Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.

Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

I would love to start a cancer organization.

There are rules about perception, but not about photography.

I do a lot of writing about my family.

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

I remember Grace (Coddington) looking at me and said, 'Can you do something?' and I was like, 'OK, how long do you give me?' and she said 'Half an hour?', I said 'Forty-five minutes?'