Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Painting is the subject of painting.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

Poems are difficult to silence.

Good well-being leads to good working performance.

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

Like any tool [drugs] can help you or hurt you.

There's no reason to speak. I have nothing to say.

Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.