My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Design is everything.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served

You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.

The cost of living is increasing arithmetically but the cost of "Dying" is increasing exponentially.......

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean

Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

Thrift is of great revenue.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.