Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

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.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

I'm still the Dun Dada of all big men.

We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten -- not ten, but thirty or forty years, and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.

Changes in clouds and rainfall can overwhelm what little effect CO2-water vapour has on temperature.