If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

Peacemaking is a noble vocation . . . To be a peacemaker, you must know the Peace-Giver.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

It's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of reality to achieving something and to learning something and becoming functional.

I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Shooting is my principal pastime.