It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.

Dreams give the strength to live life.

A glint of intention initiates the process of creation.

Professional writers write to fit

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.

To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Remember, if you don't promote yourself, then no one else will! Likewise, believe in yourself--or no one else will either.

I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.