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.

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.

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

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

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

Love everyone but chose your friends with caution.

If you love somebody set them free- it also works equally well if you hate somebody

We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.

My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.