I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a 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.

If we hug, we have tender heart towards each other.

You are born to establish the kingdom of love as you subdue the earth

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

To speak behind others' backs is the ventilator of the heart.

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.

Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.