I paint what cannot be photographed, something from the imagination... I photograph the things I don't want to paint, things that are already in existence.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

When I saw I was under attack from all sides, I knew I was on the right track.

My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

I always get worried about disrupting continuity. I seem to get blamed for that a lot.

I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.

Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need.

When you've got guys on base, you have to hit. I concentrate on getting it done.

When I was 18 I already had a business going.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.

He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times.