If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Give yourself without expecting any return.

Call attention to your strengths instead of pointing out your weaknesses.

Break an Illusion, and you open the eyes of the intelligent.

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

Anytime there is a Bigfoot show, where they supposedly have recordings of him, I am watching. I love the idea of Bigfoot. I want him to be out there somewhere.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.

Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal.