Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Failure is only a step towards success.

I know we only talked once-" "But it meant something to you." Our eyes met for only an instant. "It meant something to me, too. I just didn't realize - Well, I thought it was only me.

An enlightened teacher simply expresses enlightenment in their life by living. It is the student's job to gain the teachings. The teacher's job is just to be perfectly enlightened.

There's always stories about cute girls in the gym, I'm just not one of those people.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

I'd like to live to a hundred.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.