I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

Acceptance is the key to everything.

The best cookies of all in the world are the ones my daughter Sally makes. They come out all uniform with nice little air holes.