Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

For how could she dream for more when he was her every dream come true?

Begin to pursue your dream.

We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.