I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

People should take time to be happy.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Life is what you make it.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

Those memories that are engraved within me become teaching tools, ways of connecting with others, of creating an empathic bridge, of reaching out a hand and saying, I've been there, too.

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.

How much good can you do today? How much love can you give? How much care and kind attention?