If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

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.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Age is a state of mind.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.