I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.

The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you

America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.

I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

I keep on dying, Because I love to live

It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.