People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.