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.

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'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 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.

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.

Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.

Innocent tourists? You make me sound like the big bad wolf.”“And you’re not?” I questioned.“Only if you’re Red Riding Hood, ” he said flirtatiously.“Wow, that’s original.

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

You're a dead man, Arratay," Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. "That's been said before. Yet here I am.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!