In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Who can be worried without the light of a memory?

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.