I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.

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.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

If hell comes as a result of my speaking the truth, then let it come.

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.