Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

Flowers wither knowing that you exist.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life.

It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of liberty and the religious law God has planted in us.

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

I have respect for beer.

I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.

It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.

Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'