I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.

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.

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.

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

I know the Gospel according to Mark better than I know any sura in the Quran.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

A dream has power to poison sleep.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.